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Piracy ransom talks expected in 48 hours
Published: 02 November, 2009, 13:15
Edited: 08 March, 2010, 17:09
Talks are expected to start with Somali pirates to free a fishing trawler seized on Thursday. The Bangkok-based ship owners say the vessel is in Somalia and they are waiting for the pirates to make contact.
The “Thai Union-3”, which is carrying 23 Russians, was hijacked off the Seychelles on October 29. It has the biggest Russian crew that pirates have ever taken captive.
According to self-exiled maritime reporter Mikhail Voitenko, the vessel is already in the Somali port of Haradhere, where it met another seized fishing trawler, “Alakrana”, which sails under a Spanish flag.
Sergey Ivanov, representative of “Samui Fishing” – the owners of Thai Union-3 – expects ransom negotiations to start on Tuesday or Wednesday. Ivanov says all fishermen are reported to be alive and well.
Dmitry Shport, a Russian who managed the supplies for Samui Fishing claims that, as the ship had just exited a port at the time of the attack, the crew most likely has plenty of food and water.
Samui Fishing is part of the “Thai Union” corporation that is more than 50 years old and includes some 22 other fishing companies.
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Somalia’ estimated 3,300 km is home to home to highly diverse and abundant marine resources, including seabirds, whales, whale sharks, and several types of dolphin and turtle species and high quality Tuna. Since 1991 collapse of central authority, Somalia’s marine resources and coastal waters have become victim to massive transnational unregulated and poorly reported illegal factory fishing trawlers, dumpers of nuclear and other banned industrial toxins. Illegal fishing, dumping of nuclear wastes are the root causes of the emergence of sea piracy in Somalia. Instead of dealing with the roots causes, the prevailing Western, powers and sadly those from emerging powers such as Russia, India, China, have joined hands to sponsor ill conceived militarization of the Horn of Africa. The militarization of the Horn of Africa stands to protect not only legitimate seafaring but ships carrying illegal toxic and factory fishing trawlers-which are wrecking ecological war crimes against the people of Somalia. Pirates, to be sure are, criminal but they are taking cue from much wider criminal enterprises supported by powerful stakeholders. Dr. Amina Mire
I totally agree with Dr Amina Mire. It is apparent that there was a conpiracy among many countries to shelf the pleas of the Somali to many countries to stop stealing the natural recourses of the country. Even the UN did not respond to help the unfortunate coulntry. It chose to give a blind eye to the already suffering people. When Somalis took the matter into their own hands to defend their livelihood, all guilty countries joined and called them 'pirates'. The Question is really WHO is the pirate? Those who try to defend their recourses or those who are thieving them and also dumping deadly industrial wastes along their shores? I do not expect any answer to these questions. You know who you are and what you did. History will tell the truth.