Blessed love. With the latest mainstream-media focus on pirates in Somalia, what many people don't know is that Somalia has had toxic waste dumped on their shores for years by European firms , causing untold devastation and countless illnesses and deaths. Without any protection or help, locals had no choice but to take matters into their own hands by forming their own 'sea-patrol' to hijack suspected vessels. Now the problem has escalated to robbery etc., yet their is a deeper issue at hand, which is usually ignored.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/you-are-being-lied-to-abo_b_155147.html

http://www.infowars.com/is-toxic-waste-behind-somali-piracy/

http://www.afrovideo.org/play.php?vid=3920

-- Edited by Upright I on Monday 13th of April 2009 10:48:13 PM