This video of a interview with a Somali Pirate is a rare glimpse into the world of modern day Pirate behavior in the Indian Ocean.
If sailing the high seas, Pirates are a real threat and it is seldom we hear from incarcerated Pirates and what fueled the epidemic at sea in the first place.
As reported, Somali Pirates initially were motivated to defend there fishery resources, then matters began to take on a terrorist tone for financial gain. Because local legal systems failed to prosecute these hostile acts at sea in a court of law, there remains little motivation to curve these activities in Somali.
Face to face with a Somali pirate
BBC Reporting 6 May 2012: Very few of the Somali-based pirates who plague the Indian Ocean have been brought to justice, partly as a result of the lack of government in Somalia. But several are being held at Hargeisa prison in Somaliland - an internationally unrecognised state which broke away from Somalia in 1991.
One Somali pirate serving six years in prison told the BBC's Simon Reeve that he thought the piracy was justified even though it has become a multi-million dollar criminal industry and there have been cases of hostages and ship's crew being killed.
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Tags: Sailing, Pirates, Indian Ocean, Adventures At Sea
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