Red Alert Somalia

With the soldiers' translation, Li Lan and Lin Meiqi understood what these people were cheering.

Each of them was chanting heroic, proud, and proud slogans, and they did not lose any hope because of being caught in, nor did they regret it.

Because they all believe that it is because they continue to drive away fishing boats from other countries and protect the rights and interests that Somalis should have, and they have not violated any laws.Those who really violate the law are those foreign fishermen who come to fish.

In the Gulf of Aden, half of the sea area was originally a fishing ground for Somalis. However, from 1991 to the present, this fishing ground seems to have become a public toilet, where anyone can come.

Moreover, foreign fishing boats often drive away Somali fishermen. Fishing here has violated the interests of the Somalis. It is even more barbaric to drive away Somali fishermen.Such things cannot be tolerated in any maritime country.Even American fishing boats dare not do such things in the territorial waters of other countries, let alone drive away fishing boats from other countries.

But the Somalis are not in the eyes of the fishermen of other countries at all. They can plunder and drive them at will, and no one will come to them anyway.Therefore, things have naturally become more and more intense, causing many fishermen to organize spontaneously when they go out to sea, bring weapons, and take the initiative to drive away when they encounter fishing boats from other countries.

Such behavior sounds very sad because there is no one to defend them, and everything can only rely on themselves.But this kind of self-defense behavior has become a key target in the fight against piracy.As a result, the fishermen are these people now in prison.

"Which country came to your territorial waters to fish and expelled your normal fishing operations." After the scene calmed down, Lin Meiqi asked the third question.

"Yemen, Kenya, Oman, India and other countries, especially those in Europe and the United States, have been devastating mechanical fishing every time, resulting in a sharp drop in fishery resources in the past few years. They have caught sharks and tuna that originally belonged to us. Nothing, it became their domestic shark fin and canned food. As a result, our space was compressed and the catch was also greatly reduced. Especially the Indians, not only did they drive us away, the warships also often fired at us, and they didn’t treat us at all. His life and death are in sight."

"Then why don't you ask for help from other countries' escort formations?"

"No one will come to talk to us at all, they will only arrest us as pirates. In their eyes, we are just a group of uncivilized savages, who don't treat us Somalis as human beings."

"Then each of you was arrested because of this?"

"No, some are real pirates. We are different from them. Those real pirates are still locked in. We are just a group of heroes who have been wronged to defend our rights, not real pirates. And we also hate pirates. Although some of them often use looted things to rescue civilians, they are not heroes. Therefore, we don’t like those pirates. Because they are also the cause of the situation we are facing now."

"Don't you people think about becoming pirates?"

"No, we can be poor, we can be hungry, but we don’t want to deepen the international misunderstanding of us. We don’t want to take the extreme route like others, because that will make more and more people hostile to us, and it will deepen the international’s misunderstanding of us. Overall misunderstanding. There are only a thousand pirates in Somalia, but there are tens of thousands of fishermen. We have the longest coastline in Africa and rich fishery resources. But we don’t have our own rights, and we don’t have the strength to defend the country. We have never thought of using extreme means to retaliate. As for the real pirates, they are a group of people whose hearts have been corrupted by the devil. Hunger drives them to extremes. They will also get what they shouldn’t get. Going to hell, heaven will not take in their souls."

"So, are you connected to the real pirates?"

"Yes, many of them have come to tempt us and let us fall with them, but we have not lost our faith because of the temptation. If all of us become pirates, then no one will help us. If we say Pirates, then they arrested us for no reason, prevented us from fishing, and burned our ships. Aren’t they also pirates? They were also pirates at our door. Isn’t their behavior more hateful? "

Asked here, Lin Meiqi pointed at Li Lan, and then asked, "Do you know him?"

Under the soldier's translation, all the prisoners in the house suddenly stood up, then faced Li Lan and bowed deeply.

"We know him. He has saved many Somalis. He is a really good person, a good person who really treats us Somalis as people. Allah is above, and he will be blessed forever."

"How did you know?" Lin Meiqi asked.

"My family came to visit the prison. He gave me a photo, so I recognize it." Following Lin Meiqi's words, the prisoners began to speak.

After listening to these people's answers, even Li Lan was taken aback. He didn't expect that these people would recognize him.Moreover, he did not expect that in the hearts of these people, he still had such a high reputation.

In fact, before coming here, Li Lan knew more or less the details of these people.There is also a clear understanding of real pirates and fake pirates.

In the eyes of many people, these fishermen who go to sea with weapons and want to defend themselves are pirates.In the absence of sovereignty and axioms, they also have no opportunity to argue.Most of the pirates caught here are fake pirates.

But there are real pirates. In the past few years, there have been thousands of people in Somalia who are really engaged in piracy activities.Moreover, many pirates now have heavy weapons and rely on hijacking ships to obtain a source of livelihood.

As the saying goes, full of warmth and desire for Yin, hungry to steal the heart.

Over the years of war and chaos, more than one-third of Somalia’s people are receiving emergency relief. The so-called Somali shilling is experiencing higher and higher daily inflation. In addition, drought and the chaos of warlords have caused the people to die of hunger and hunger. Ground.

This also naturally stimulated the increase in the number of pirates, because as long as you succeed once, you can get a huge income.This is enough for many people to take risks and join the ranks.Especially after the hijacking of the Sirius supertanker in Saudi Arabia, it received a ransom of three million dollars, which has stimulated the development of Somali pirates.More and more people join in.Maybe some people are forced, maybe some people are deceived, but they can't get off the boat anymore.

And Li Lan didn't have a lot of favor with the real Somali pirates. As for the fishermen who were caught, he planned to let them go after the real verification.For those who have engaged in piracy, the punishment is still to be punished.

As for the legal rights and interests of the ocean repeatedly mentioned by these people, Li Lan was also full of anger when he first learned about it.Because at that time he remembered the dark period of China more than a hundred years ago. The fishermen's encounter in Somalia today is so similar to that of China back then.It's just a microcosm.

As for those foreign fishing boats, Li Lan also hates them. They not only enter the exclusive economic zone of Somalia to fish, but also enter the exclusive territorial waters of Somalia.What's even more hateful is that these people are killed no matter how big or small, if they miss it, they don't let it go, even the smallest fish.This has also led to the gradual loss of balance in the fishery ecology of Somali waters in recent years.

To make matters worse, Somali fishermen, as their owners, in many cases have to behave in a low voice, watching the faces of fishermen from other countries eat.Fishing in one's own waters is often driven by other countries.

In the past, some young people in Somalia also spontaneously organized some self-defense organizations to defend their rights, but because they did not have the support of the state power and a legal name, they could only be treated as pirates.This also leaves many Somali fishermen without living space.Some people were able to maintain their faith, while others began to retaliate against the ships of various countries.Many pirates came from this.

The remaining people still live on fish, because they have nothing to live on except fishing.But now, they can't even get out of the sea.In their words, either die or fight.

The reason why Li Lan came to Bosasso today is to listen to what these people say, because he also organizes fishermen to go out to sea. Now in the territory, many fishermen are engaged in other jobs.There are great marine resources, wasted there.

Therefore, no matter sooner or later, Li Lan will let them continue to go to sea, which will also help the economic development of the territory.But fishermen first need fishing boats to go fishing, and then they need a certain amount of strength to escort them.

Li Lan has none of these now.The most important thing is to drive away the fishing boats of other countries in the territorial waters.He can't control other places, but in the territorial waters, he must fight for their own residents' rights and interests.

After all, the ocean outside the current territory also belongs to his territory. He has no intention of giving up on the twelve-mile territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone, and the continental shelf.

He would not say anything before he had no strength, but after he had strength, this situation must be changed.Whether it belongs to the rights and interests of the Somalis or Li Lan's personal interests.He must be prepared and do something.And everything starts today.