Faces Of Africa - Big Mouth and The Somali Pirates

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coast line the longest in Africa chaos had engulfed Somaliland and seized after the state collapsed in 1991 when this first started it's absolutely true that Somali waters had were been overfished by international fishing fleets and because Somalia doesn't have a declared the exclusive economic zone a lot of international fishing feats from Europe and Asia felt absolutely free to come in close in to the Somali shores and fish illegally so in the beginning it was true there was a lot of overfishing in the beginning it wasn't like it wasn't like ran-sama such it was like fine for the fish they're taken you know and they will release them almost instantaneously it was like then these illegal fishing boats armed themselves against this you know Somalia costigan and then it's only after they armed themselves that these guys on the Somali side got very ruthless and started you know firing back con todo de una Ohio Lebanon shake-a-doo qualia Garcia be provoked alia overly Ramiro a dope alia expansive Oliver knocked aside yeah manicure acaba Valerie - holy SH shampoo birthday about and are in Tsukuba lowly Kabaddi now a pillow and my Dara and Mamo chillin man Dooley de Chile Jonnie Rajas kept below the homegirl Berlin a new level a flamey a former civil servant created a model that quickly outgrew the interests of the everyday fishermen he would soon be known as the founding father of Somali piracy what do we do about its rampant piracy I swiped us buying piracy insurance to get you over 2 million square miles of ocean an arcane yes and well organized business what began as an act of desperation by Somali fishermen to defend their waters swiftly evolved into a criminal enterprise but don't make any mistake there may have been illegal fishing in Somali waters but what we have now is a criminal activity that has got nothing to do with fishing whatsoever and is purely a criminal enterprise run by gangsters for profit using horrendous tactics including killing people and torture so this has got nothing to do with illegal fishing anymore it's all about crime gangs of fishermen found they could easily capture and board international fishing vessels in 2003 a phony began head hunting for pirate trainers in the Puntland region where piracy had first emerged he carefully selected pirates to create the most efficient and least expensive team F when he recruited across clan lines a notable feat in a country devastated by clan warfare well he was really the founding father of piracy and interesting he wasn't a fisherman he's picked up this narrative of victimization that that Somali pirates will often use to justify their actions and in some cases many you know some cases they were they were fishermen but as I understand f1e was a former civil servant who returned back home to Somalia after spending time abroad because he saw this opportunity at the age of 24 Canadian Jay ba hadoo left home to spend several months living with pirates it worked out I mean I kind of picked piracy was one of these things where just a night at a bar after a few beers of the friend we just got to started talking about it this was way back in late 2008 and the idea I think we were on and I specifically was gripped by the same romanticism that I think has affected a lot of people about you know hearing about modern-day pirates and see I as you said I packed my bags and and went to see what was up there for all his talk about defending Somali waters from illegal fishing ships he began his career by hijacking World Food Program transports that were bringing food aid to Mogadishu to to his own people so quite the opposite of stealing fish they're in effect bringing bringing grain to feed the starving population my [ __ ] I saw a girl move in a glass tank Alden I saw a girl abundantly would be a sir Delaware on our shrapnel ericeira sharply KwaZulu a bazooka luckily I met Castle high stoic I stopped what a leader a sort of girl like you have anything for me in Somalia got him a double fever sagashi why did you believe I can I don't have the core for the hunter who forgot how do we design a gradually been a negotiation tomorrow he sort of invented the the kidnapping for ransom model you saw certainly saw pirate attacks before f1 days time but they tended to take the form of kind of muggings at sea where the crew might be attacked their stuff stolen and then the Pirates would leave when he realized that in Somalia with the unsecured coastline with the security situation there you could actually grab and hold the crew for a long period of time and in effect handle it like any other other other sort of kidnapping Mohamad ido is a kenyan somali journalist with al-jazeera who has covered piracy for nearly a decade from my interviews with pilots who were involved in the crime and particularly they told me first of all they don't value the ship the ship doesn't matter to them at all because what do they do with it will they take it you know and what will they do with it they can take it to any international port will they value the hostages if the hostages are from the countries like the United States the United Kingdom France all these countries that are considered rich Western countries that's what they love that's that's what they prefer pirate groups such as the funnies was split into two teams one to attack the ship and the other to hold the ship and its crew after the hijacking ransom payments became the main source of revenue for a Franey and his fellow pirate leaders a World Bank report on Somali pirates estimated ransom payments totaled between 339 million dollars and 413 million dollars from 2005 to 2012 I've been the soldier I was a soldier for 37 years and I I guess I've seen some pretty horrendous things but having to deal with these poor families is heartbreaking John Steed a retired colonel who once headed the United Nations counter-piracy unit now runs a hostage Support Program when you wear when you talk to the Pirates by and large or you're talking to a translator or a negotiator and his job is to his job is to negotiate a ransom you're not talking to the actual pirates holding holding the hostages by and large you're talking to a go-between who can be extremely polite and usually speaks the lack of their they're very good at finding people who speak the language of that particular group of hostages you know even if it's Thai or all Chinese they manage to produce negotiators from the Somali diaspora around the world these negotiators aren't necessarily always in Somalia they can be anywhere in the world this is a very complex business model with tentacles that you know that are worldwide Sharad Bari was an engine engineer on a vessel hijacked by pirates in May of 2010 can be evening to you to think about that whether I will be able to see the Sun in tomorrow morning because what kind of torches what we had on my vessels was enormous it was so difficult to survive in those conditions that we even lost the hope of coming back for more seeing above Sam diamond but again in the future so we lost all the hoops crew members from poor countries accounted for a majority of hostages often abandoned by the ship owner and their governments some spent years in captivity pirates demanded millions in ransom an impossible amount for the families of the seamen chirag family had little information and had almost no hope for his release was disastrous you can say they didn't know what to do whom to approach my mother was very bad for her she wasn't a total depression and I lost her during that time after eight long months living in horrendous conditions Baris shipping company finally paid the ransom and he returned to India 2008 was a boom year for the Somali pirates in September a finely orchestrated the taking of the MV finer a Ukrainian arms ship carrying 33 tanks grenade launchers and ammunition 21 crew members were taken hostage the Ukrainian first mate died from hypertension a few days after the hijacking fearing the arms could fall into the hands of Islamist insurgents an international naval force tried to recover the ship after five months a Franny's gang released the ship its crew and cargo for a ransom payment of 3.2 million dollars you and now we're going to get an update on the pirates of Somalia in particular what they're doing with all that ransom money pirates collected millions of dollars in ransom money fueling endless speculation of where it all went media traced the money trail to Somali communities living in neighboring Kenya in particular to the Nairobi suburb of Easley business is booming here it was born a reason here easily was before it was just you know mud dirt and homes and it was very low life kind of living but now as you see there are many constructions going on now new buildings are being built new roads but residents of Easley many of whom are Somalis born in Kenya feel the media unfairly painted Easley as a pirate Haven this is the hard work money hardened and we work hard for a living you know the people the Pirates who have stole this much these billions of dollars they haven't even used that money to help their own people their own family their own they've used that money in other things we don't know where that money is gone you can obviously see it hasn't done anything to help us so that money hasn't come to sleep Kenya Somalia anywhere like that so that piracy money I don't know where it's gone but hasn't come to us guy ended up in Easley and did some Elise cursory investigative reporting on it talked to some businessmen talked to some guys funding construction projects there and of course they're rumors and there's no doubt that some pirate money comes from Somalia to the Somali community living in East Lee but that money is not going to affect property prices in Nairobi in any significant way so where did all of the money go if you look at it it's Millions the policeman is the ransom being paid out is Millions but when you look at it critically and having spoken to some of these people who have been holding you know ships for months some of them a year or even two it's not much when you look at how they give you the money up for example they take a ship they hold it for nine ten months and they're given two million dollars this is how they divide it fifty percent of the money goes to the the financier then fifty percent has to be shared among the people who first got the ship as the financier a Franny's earnings were reinvested in new pirate attacks running a pirate gang also involved heavy operating costs in addition to taking care of hostages some of whom were kept for years a phony had to support his pirates and their habits these Pirates are drug addicts they chew cud they drink alcohol for ten months or a year they have to get their supply of this much-needed supplies so to get them going cut a leafy narcotic popular in the Horn of Africa became an indispensable part of the Somalis pirate life when you have pirates who are sitting on a ship all day nothing to do it's the job of their leader just to supply them with Cod literally you know 24 hours a day if they want it and then you get situations where they're so jacked up on on the drug that they fire off guns they they intimidate hostages in one case a pirate in the middle of the night on the ship that I was you know the case I was following simply put a gun to the captain's head because he was so high and said I want to you know I want to leave I want to go on a cruise basically just took the ship six hours down the coast and turned it around for no apparent reason it's not that every month you know five or six ships pay that on some money now maybe one would pay there are so many every month now if you look at all the people who are waiting for this money it doesn't amount to much at the end of the day especially these people who have to build houses who have to pay off all those women the ones supplying the cart the ones supplying the food they have to give charity and and they talk of some of them were talking to me about giving money to the weak members of the society they go to the crippled people and pay like they're like the Robin Hood's of today and Robin Hood song of Somalia simple will you the uneven lot of media Lumiere my AmeriCorps national on huh but keep them valid a young hero how can add milk moving and Novick Adam ashen million million avocado and I will activate overhead the Bob miracle equivocal Ottawa has how long ago Merlot to clear their own bar money either somebody so having eventually the costs of piracy began to outweigh the reward international naval forces began patrolling Somalia Seas and most shipping vessels hired private security to fend against pirate attacks as the business model of Somali piracy became unsustainable shrewd entrepreneurs such as affray nee began to scale back their operations and bigmouth also started looking out for his own legal safety he was asking for official forgiveness from the local and national governments in Somalia former governor of the pirate fields region of human and hab Mohammed Ti himself accused of benefiting from the spoils of piracy pardoned Delaney in 2010 two years later the internationally backed government in Mogadishu also excused a Freni to earn the government pardoned he claimed to now be fighting the very crime ring he helped to create one of Somalia's best-known Pirates has announced he's retiring Muhammad Abdul Hassan nicknamed big mouth says he will now work with the Somali government to end what he calls a dirty business big mouths career spanned eight years and his organization included hundreds of young men Oh mocchi I'm Monica Garcia I'm gonna handle aha see a kneeler hurdle Ohio annual : but legacy would be Pasadena so honkin way America what a terrible terrible on Babu bhai Abu Saleh and how high water Lagoon Hwy net or and nourishes no level Maya hang in all hi sky and Stacy Alan Parker Mohammed in our embassy in melaka arms or body Ian Morrison en Erica's harness or the cigar bar also denier lava the lira Anan Suhani Judy a comedy soda brought the children and who has to me or answer my rhythm Aaron calamari Island have ground as a mammal reason you get edu hope kept together in a man who are a mean one Terry green or Serena until Dylan hi Uli born on shake-a-doo Kalia Vasya me pedo Kalia overly Ramiro I do Kalia expansive Oliver lucky site I'm here on a manicure acaba de retour holy SH shampoo birthday talk about okay we're tied in the Tsukuba Oh in a coup chili avocado - of sciatica gaga listen big mouth found a way for the government to pay his bills and grumpy Liholiho and wobble on Takahashi Toshiya subbu subbu Risto Kentucky l-akhirin Polaris Camila Gurkha oh ha ha Erasmus Telugu least Aaron Cohn in lucho Ragan Plata below Lucho man lol oh hi wake up man hey Linden it's sort of like using a bank robber to guard the vault I guess and this created a huge scandal of course last year when it was revealed that Sheikh Sharif had appointed this pretty much the biggest pirate in history at least in Somali piracy history as now a counter piracy officer of this idea that nine hundred and something Pirates are demobilized I think this gives an incorrect image which is that there's sort of pirates standing armies like nine hundred of these guys are wearing uniforms that say I'm a pirate and then if when it comes along and says no no you're a soldier now or you're an anti pirate militia man or whatever it is in fact piracy has always worked as very loose Confederations of unemployed guys with guns young men with guns who come together for the purpose of forming a gang and then dissolve there's not really a standing career as a pirate experts doubted a Franey sudden change of heart I've been doing this for nearly six years so from the from the very beginning of the sort of that the peak of the piracy problem I've had no personal contact with that wainy whatsoever he has never attended any of the counter-piracy meetings that we've held and I run the Secretariat for the Somali contact group for counter piracy but he has never actually attended any any any meetings that I know of all through this whole piracy thing they've you know they responded and changed the model as we've reacted and you know now the model is coming to an end and you know they you know they'll adapt maybe move into something else as the profits of piracy diminished F Wayne II and his colleagues began expanding into other maritime work now what you hear at least according to the UN monitoring group is that pirates now pirate networks in northern in northern Somalia in Portland have converted into weapons smuggling from Yemen because a lot of the weapons coming into Somalia come through Yemen and in northern Somalia so yeah as you say it's an extremely adaptable adaptable career there's a wide range of options once you once you know your way around a boat especially you know in Somalia new career paths pirates included arms running drug smuggling human trafficking and counter piracy I think of Winnie is a good salesman he has been in the game for a long time made money I'm suddenly announced through a press conference in which both the local and international media attended that he was retiring from what he had been doing policy but again I think he is not done with piracy because he's coming again through the backdoor saying he's rehabilitating pilots and looking for contracts and all kinds of things so I think he's just how can I call it he's just trying to change because right now you know the policy is almost unsustainable while many were looking skeptically at his apparent retirement big mouth was feeling complacent with his pardon in his briefcase and lived a comfortable life in Mogadishu I don't know how much money he has but he still has money and he according to friends I've been talking to and when I met him he looked like somebody who was enjoying himself in Mogadishu of sitting in cafes chatting and sipping coffee all day on end but after being pardoned at home could he be arrested outside of Somalia absolutely he's committed crimes around that are punishable by international law Belgian authorities have detained suspected leading Somali pirate have maintained at Brussels Airport along with another man when he arrived believing he was to be interviewed for a documentary about his life story guilty of everything he may be accused of but that will be tested in court any documentary could be many many years away having an official government pardon F when he was a free man in Somalia but the United Nations linked him to dozens of hijackings charges he would have to face if caught travelling abroad in October 2013 nearly a decade after his career as a pirate began and despite his quest for redemption undercover Belgium agents arrested a phony in an elaborate sting operation posing as filmmakers they convinced a phony to fly to Brussels to be interviewed for a documentary on piracy upon landing a phony was immediately arrested and taken to prison in Bruges he faced up to 45 years in prison for hijacking a Belgium ship in 2009 and kidnapping the crew perhaps for the first time in his career big mouth had been outwitted Arivaca sherry and one query a video editing Innova Marcus Oshiro Arcana toilet i washer hey hey tell of the Anoka Holohan ago and Ohana Lauren karna Islamic cos da Doha nahin iguana I want Valley Red Hood in take a now Anna Wonka hang the radiation in no the hotel materialism achieve a noble eternity aw what a sunburn hi Marc Cohen or Encarna Marcus and we're here Marcus and Emile you achieve a new holland malarek lacking for some Academy see for some ammo are you kidding me so wanna meet Dan Kennedy Nick when we study or had the elliptical killing in the - okay you go Cedeno and the high school a Danny or oh yeah I came with a little sign in and my high school 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Published: Tue Jun 17 2014