You don't hear about Somalia's "pirates" in the same breath with nuclear waste, do you? What do they have to do with each other? Well, look away from the mainstream media and listen for a minute to K'Naan, a musician from Somalia.
According to a British journalist, Somalia was a nuclear dumping ground before the "piracy" started--
As soon as the Somali government collapsed in 1991, "... mysterious European ships started appearing off the coast of Somalia, dumping vast barrels into the ocean. The coastal population began to sicken. At first they suffered strange rashes, nausea and malformed babies... hundreds of the dumped and leaking barrels washed up on shore. People began to suffer from radiation sickness... This is the context in which the 'pirates' have emerged. Somalian fishermen took speedboats to try to dissuade the dumpers and trawlers..."
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Somehow, I'm not surprised. Interesting stuff. I was just talkin with Jason about how no one ever mentions WHY young somalians would turn to piracy or who is actually funding their exploits in the news reports. The poisoning of Somalia is obviously not accidental, so why there? and why now?
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