Military-strategic action against pirates in Somalia may weaken. But the only chance for a lasting solution to land.
The pirates in Somali waters increasingly attracting international attention. The opposite is true about it for the crisis in the Somali mainland. "While there is the potential for a structural solution to piracy is," says Roger Middleton of the British think tank Chatham House. The military and geostrategic thinking dominates in response to the explosive increase in piracy in Somalia, the country where perhaps the most forgotten crisis in the world rages on. The Danish shipping giant Moller-Maersk has announced that its oil tankers now along the Cape of Good Hope sends, instead of the Gulf of Aden. The additional costs for the longer route takes Maersk to purchase again. Maersk follows so more Svitzer, the world's largest tugboat company (also from Denmark), and the Norwegian Odfjell, big in the field of chemical tankers. Also in the Netherlands who are known for shipping along South Africa sail to Asia. The Commission has identified three more pirates have hijacked ships nearly forty years, with the bouncer, last Saturday, the mammoth tanker Sirius Star. An action "unprecedented" as a spokesman for the U.S. Fifth Fleet said. From the maritime sector now sounds the call for more robust action by the foreign warships that are opgestoomd to Somalia. Around fifteen frigates crossing the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden, from, inter alia, the United States, France, Russia, Greece, Turkey, Pakistan and India. "Military action can certainly weaken the pirates," said Middleton. In particular, the focus off of "mother ships", which pirates far from the coast launch attacks, in limited action radius. The Star Sirius is probably robbed from a mothership. An Indian frigate blew this week on a mothership, an example where navies of other countries an example to us, as stated maritime organizations. But, explains from Middleton, pirates detection is one thing, neutralize them is another story. The Indian action was shooting, according to official reading, a response to a hostile action by the pirates. However, the hijackers at the right time low, then a good chance to make it all too active opposition to escape. Many countries hesitant to return for possible legal consequences of active pirate hunting. The Danish navy took ten pirates in September but had to release them on the instructions of Copenhagen. Denmark has no jurisdiction, they said. Observers suggest that Copenhagen was scared that the pirates, after any prison, asylum applications were in Denmark. That would be difficult to be refused; hauls to the dangerous Somalia are not an option. The system of armed escorts by Dutch companies have sued - as in the Second World War - also has its limits. The twenty thousand ships annually by the Gulf of Aden sailing, can never all be monitored. The ultimate solution to the problems at sea is also, paradoxically, on land, so argues Middleton. Seventeen years banditry, clan war and armed rebellion in Somalia has led to what the United Nations described as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. More than three million Somalis, one third of the population, are dependent on foreign food aid. Somali fishermen have seen their work taken over by foreign fishermen, also European. Piracy is a tempting prospect, especially given the envelopes to earn his. Restoration of central authority in Somalia should be given priority, says Middleton. Can then be given a coastguard, which can act against the pirates, and on economic recovery which created alternatives exist for the pirates. Somalia that an effective democratic authority will, however, is a dream, recognizes Middleton. Islamic extremists, who have controlled southern Somalia, also threaten the capital Mogadishu to take. President Abdullahi Yusuf to hide all week in neighboring Kenya. Interestingly enough had it right extremists in 2006, when they were briefly in power in Somalia, piracy, the head is pressed. Piracy may not Islam, was the argument. The piracy increased again after the extremists were driven away by Ethiopia with the approval of the U.S., who were afraid of fundamentalism in Somalia. The insurgents who now advance, say they will punish the pirates again. A spokesman of a rebel faction said yesterday by Reuters news agency that armed fighters Haradheere are entered, the seaside resort where the hijacked tanker Saudi Sirius Star is now. "Saudi Arabia is a Muslim country and a Saudi ship hijacking is a bigger crime than the hijacking of another ship. We will do something about it. " Middleton says just have to prove that extremists groups, in spite of what they claim, collaborate with pirates. "They want to take advantage of the spoils." The chance is minimal that the foreseeable future an international intervention in Somalia, which many observers see as a condition for restoration of independent authority. The UN giving priority to Congo, where they extra 3.100 want to send blue helmets. And then there is the continuing search for the promised troops for Darfur. "The fight against piracy will hopefully also to think more about the problems in Somalia," said Middleton, "but I fear that the sea fight just diverts attention from what's happening on land."
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