"Mogadishu - Somali pirates holding 48 Asian fishermen and their three vessels have lowered their ransom demand during government-brokered negotiations, a human rights activist said.
The gunmen, who have been holding the fishermen and their vessels near the southern Somali port of Kismayo since August 15, originally demanded $500 000 for each of the three boats and their crews. They agreed to accept $50 000 during negotiations with the Malaysian agent for the Taiwan trawlers, Ali Bashi, chairperson of the Fanole Human Rights Centre, said on Tuesday."
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Many of these vessels are illegally fishing in the Somali territorial waters and use fishing techniques that are banned and therefore depleting our fisheries resources. If that was the case I would have supported them, but when they hijack a U.N ship carrying humanitarian food and medicine for suffering Somalis, then that is what I consider a clear line of piracy. Does anyone know who those pirates are?
