Originally Posted by Libertine

Most people don't seem to fully understand just what kind of people those pirates are.

Most of them are not evil, scheming criminal masterminds. They're young men living in abject poverty, on the brink of starvation, with zero options and no future.

Few people realize that piracy in Somalia started after the government collapsed and international companies started fishing and dumping waste illegally in Somalian waters, basically plundering the resources of people who had virtually nothing to start with. Somali fishing boats were actually destroyed by foreign fishermen because they didn't want any competition.