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UN Security Council supports Russian anti-pirate plan
Published: 28 April, 2010, 07:03
Edited: 28 April, 2010, 13:36
TAGS: Crime, UN, Russia, Law, Piracy
The UN Security Council has backed a Russian proposal to create special international tribunals to try Somali pirates arrested at sea.
The plan makes it easier to bring bandits to justice, after some captured raiders have been freed by neighboring African countries because they couldn't be tried under existing laws.
The text of this draft resolution was put on the table by Russia because Moscow concerns were that coastal zone countries near Somalia, such as Kenya, have decided to stop prosecuting pirates that they catch for the simple reason that local courts and local prisons basically are packed, and they have no place and time to take care of the pirates being caught in the region.
So the goal of this particular resolution is trying to come up with a specific judicial system that will allow these pirates to be prosecuted and punished once they are caught.
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Piracy,like everything the west undertakes is a load of bollocks,The pirates must discuss amongst themselves,these western idiots are dumboes.Just accept the fact our prats in the west hav'nt a clue what to do,they just a talking shop ,trying to impress its subjects they got everything under control.Our western govts are like that character Near sighted MR Magoo.Funny Mr Magoo is an American.P.S. I was a seaman,dying to know how a ship doing 14 knots or more pirates can come along side ,throw they grappling hooks and get aboard.Unless invited and they throw down the gang plank for them to come up.