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Piracy has Drawn World Attention
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It is said that the sea has a surface area of about 2 million square miles that is largely the operation area of the pirates. It is not, therefore, easy for a small force without helicopters to control such a vast operational area and defeat the pirates.

It is essential that the world collectively stand up and fight against the actions of piracy that have become a question not to reckon with. I believe that if all the neighboring countries would participate in this war the pirates would find it very difficult to survive in such a hostile and harassing environment.

To some however, the question of piracy can become history if the Somali transitional government was sufficiently empowered to end the insurgency in Somalia.

For Somali peoples having a stablity and infrustrures means that the pirates will have no base on land and will become exposed to the marine forces dealing with them from the sea .

Actually, the world has abandoned Somalia and I think it is high time the world turned its attention back to the abandoned land and help the government there to stabilize.

In fact, one may think that for the Somalis to get involved in acts of piracy was a way of showing the world that they are tired of the suffering they have experienced in the past more than twenty years.

Statistics show that only last year over one hundred vessels were captured and about 815 people held hostage.

This year, so far over twenty five ships were captured and more than three hundred and fifty people held captives of which up to now 16 vessels and two hundred and fifty people remain in captivity.

It is very encouraging for the world to have pronounced itself strongly against piracy and having taken a step towards its total elimination.

It might not be easy to have them all eliminated but I believe that with determination the pirates cannot hang on for a long time.

Mahamed Osman
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia

April 27, 2009 | 12:07 PM Comments  0 comments

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