13-year old Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was stoned to death in Somalia by insurgents because she was raped. Reports indicate that was raped by three men while traveling by foot to visit her grandmother in conflict capital, Mogadishu.
When she went to the authorities to report the crime, they accused her of adultery and sentenced her to death. Aisha was forced into a hole in a stadium of 1,000 onlookers as 50 men buried her up to the neck and cast stones at her until she died.
When some of the people at the stadium tried to save her, militia opened fire on the crowd, killing a boy who was a bystander.
I hope we can all work with the US administration to begin creating conditions in which we can banish this barbaric and malevolent behavior from our planet.i just Give you a brief summary on the intervi ew.. it was very graphic.. just barbaric ...the most striking things is..how many times she try to crawl out of the hole .. and the three Foreigner man ???Who put Little girl it in the hole. her ..Brothers the way he Describe.. when they take her out the back of pickup truck..how she try to get away ..when .. everyone's screen...gun-fire on Attendance.. it will make you sick.. . I'm sorry can't translate it anymore.. I just can't take it anymore..
Hell on Earth: The never seen `before interview .. her parents absolutely hopeless..THERE child killed in front of them. .interview.
I only translated the Somalia Part . I don't speak swedish .i don know what kind a question report ask .. I just understand the Answer - .. just.. pure evil .. God Help UsWe Cover in the Past
nytimes .. Jeffrey Gettleman's .. yusuf garad ..BBC , the Voice of America..and . adow.. Al Jazeera..don't have time..This Kind of Reporting.. they are In Bed with the wahabi Devil
Please contact me if you want't help the famaly.. They Are In refugee camp in Kenya .. terrorfreesomalia@gmail.com
other Al-shabaab INHUMAN KILLINGS... human rights violations
Her husband burnt her because she received a call from her ex husband who she was married to when she was 14 years old. She's in Kenya..motherfucker needs to be burned alive. how can you do shit like this to a fellow human being let alone your wife.
the girl cant sleep, cant do nothing for self, not even use the Toilet, and she dint have a Father or a Mother, she is on her own, another Lady is taking care of her who's not even related to her. That actually brought tears to my eyes. My heart goes out to her!! I'll try my best to show this video to as many people as I can, she needs to be helped. I could only imagine what was going through her head and what she has to go through on a daily base! Somali (Hawiye) jehadest People are so fucking sick . Hawiyeare the most ignorant, poor, violent, and dirties in the world. Their violence and ignorance is manifested in this video. Look at how Somali women is treated by their so-called husbands. Faysal abdi Samad send this disturbing story to Terror Free Somalia, He Interview fatuma in Nairobi, Kenyaplease contactmore details. at 004551320725 Viewers discretion is advised Viewers discretion is advised Viewers discretion is advised
Sharia law let a“Evil” radical jihadist man do this evil and inhuman act
When I say, as I have previously stated in my past stories. Islam, in fact most major religions are in place to solidify that it has always been a Man’s World, no ifs, ands, or buts, Get used to it Ladies.It just seems in a modern society Islamic Zealots have taken it to the nth degree. One can be sure moderate followers of Islam would like nothing better than for this to go away. It feels like they are weeding out the non Islamic or not as Zealous Herd! As these undated photos attest, certainly a country which needs a collective Bitch Slap. The Somali people are starving and dying, aid rarely reaches them, either the corrupt Government (We support with Aid) steals it or the Islamic militants and other so called Freedom Fighters steal it for themselves. Is it any wonder the World feel no empathy to a country in which it’s own citizens clearly will not stand up to stop ever changing regimes and off shoot militias, preferring Western Armies to lay down their lives on their behalf? Par for the course if you ask me!It is clear Islamists in Somalia have only one goal and it isn’t peace or helping the citizenry. What many may ask themselves, if indeed Islam is one of the worlds largest Ideologies, why are these zealots who preach death and destruction are allowed to do so? Why are these Zealot Clerics not found by fellow Muslims, stripped of their vestments and status, jailed or put to the sword? Lead me to believe either they do not care, or perhaps like wheat in the windy field, the undecided will join whoever is the victor in all this ongoing horrendous situation, hence being part of the Worldwide problem instead of a Global Solution! Why is it always Westerners who must help and intervene, why not YOU! It is your people and culture, your ideology! Riding on our Safe and Secure coattails of Democracy is not the answer if you refuse to be part of it! If you are a billion strong, then perhaps you should be pulling your weight on the international stage and stop this! It seems every time we read a media report on Islam, it’s not good, leaving many to believe, perhaps this is not an exception to the rule anymore, as time and time again stories like this keep hitting the presses. Currently in the World today the majority of countries under Islam seem to be engaged either in War or Crisis and have been for decades. Do you see where I am going with this? Hello! What does this tell you! Islam ain’t seem to be working! And Britain is introducing Islamic Law into it’s Court system? Holy Hitler! WTF are they thinking? Time for Muslims to act and stop those who misinterpret Islam. Muslims know who these Clerics are, as Mosques where they preach arepretty easy to spot in any town or city.Bottom line, if you know where they are stop them! If a group in USA were doing this to people like in Somalia, you can bet your life,USA would stop it in it’s tracks and hunt the offenders down Pronto!. Again, I direct you to the recent introduction of Sharia Law being integrated in British Courts. Eventually it is only a matter of time, perhaps in a decade or so before a British Male Judge misinterprets in favour of man and thus begins the downward slant into oblivion of women’s rights, gay rights, etc. Will someone stand up and stop it? I fear by then it will be too late! Cause it ain’t stopping in other countries it seems. But then religious leaders of all faiths it seems, have fond memories when “Religion was King versus centuries ago when King was Religion”! and today it seems a reversal of fortune for some religious leaders of Islam. http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/01/amnesty.rape.somalia.ap/index.html November 1, 2008 — Updated 1539 GMT (2339 HKT) Amnesty: Rape girl, 13, killed for adultery MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A 13-year-old girl who said she had been raped was stoned to death in Somalia after being accused of adultery by Islamic militants, a human rights group said. Dozens of men stoned Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow to death Oct. 27 in a stadium packed with 1,000 spectators in the southern port city of Kismayo, Amnesty International and Somali media reported, citing witnesses. The Islamic militia in charge of Kismayo had accused her of adultery after she reported that three men had raped her, the rights group said. Initial local media reports said Duhulow was 23, but her father told Amnesty International she was 13. Some of the Somali journalists who first reported the killing later told Amnesty International that they had reported she was 23 based upon her physical appearance. Calls to Somali government officials and the local administration in Kismayo rang unanswered Saturday. “This child suffered a horrendous death at the behest of the armed opposition groups who currently control Kismayo,” David Copeman, Amnesty International’s Somalia campaigner, said in a statement FridayAmnesty International Denounces Stoning Death of 13-Year-Old Somali Girl, AISHA DUHULOW, by Al-Shabaab terrorists, she had also been gang raped, Sunday, November 02, 2008, MOGADISHU, Somalia — A 13-year-old girl who said she had been raped was stoned to death in Somalia after being accused of adultery by Islamic militants (Al-Shabaab), a human rights group said. Dozens of men stoned Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow to death Oct. 27 in a stadium packed with 1,000 spectators in the southern port city of Kismayo, Amnesty International and Somali media reported, citing witnesses. The Islamic militia in charge of Kismayo (Al-Shabaab head hunters) had accused her of adultery after her father reported that three men had raped her, the rights group said. Amnesty said Duhulow struggled with her captors and had to be forcibly carried into the stadium. "At one point during the stoning, Amnesty International has been told by numerous eyewitnesses that nurses were instructed to check whether Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was still alive when buried in the ground. They removed her from the ground, declared that she was, and she was replaced in the hole where she had been buried for the stoning to continue," the human rights group said. It continued: "Inside the stadium, militia members opened fire when some of the witnesses to the killing attempted to save her life, and shot dead a boy who was a bystander." more.. go to
Five top grades at A-level were not enough to win a Somalian girl a place, as university admits she was 'disadvantaged' by their admissions process Oxford University has admitted that it bungled when it failed to offer an interview to a bright black student from one of Britain’s most deprived areas. Somalian-born Fatima Yusuf, 19, had applied to study medicine at Merton College after obtaining the highest possible grades in five A-level subjects and 11 A* grades in her GCSEs. She was penalised by the university because she took five of her GCSEs as a 13-year-old — an achievement that would normally have indicated academic strength.However, as she gained the remainder of her GCSEs at a more normal age, the university’s admissions department disregarded her results because they had not been taken in a single sitting. It now recognises this was a mistake.The university also marked her down because she went to an obscure college in east London and it could not find any results for the institution to compare Fatima with her fellow students.Fatima was forced to appeal and the university conceded that she had been “disadvantaged” by its admissions process. As a result, she was given an interview but still failed to gain a place. Fatima, who lives in Edmonton, north London, said this weekend: “I didn't want preferential treatment, but I wanted fair treatment and I don't think I got it. Fatima’s father, Bashir, said: “Fatima was a beacon of hope for the Somali community and an example of what you can achieve“The feeling in the community now is that Oxford is off limits because they’ve seen what happened to Fatima and they see what looks like an elitist institution where people from humble backgrounds are not welcome.”Oxford’s rejection of Fatima has emerged after David Cameron said its admission rate for black students was “disgraceful”. The university hit back, accusing the prime minister of using misleading figures, and pointing out it had invested millions of pounds in trying to attract students from all backgrounds.Fatima, the eldest of seven children, was a baby when her parents fled war-torn Somalia in 1992. They settled in Edmonton, where Bashir now works as a manager in a Somalian community centre.It is a highly disadvantaged area. An Enfield council report in 2009 noted: “In Edmonton the indicators of multiple deprivation have shown that our population experiences low attainment in education, higher levels of crime, low income, poor health, housing problems and a poor quality environment.”Gang violence is commonplace. Last Sunday, Negus McLean, 15, was stabbed to death there in a gang attack as he tried to protect his younger brother.Fatima attended her local primary school and went to study at an Islamic boarding school in Nottingham. She was homesick and her family struggled to pay the fees, so she left after a year. With no immediate offer of a suitable state school place, she studied for months on her own despite the noise from her younger siblings in the family’s rented terraced home. “It was difficult because I didn’t have a school, but I went to libraries where it was quieter,” she said. “I enjoyed learning and I was motivated to get qualifications.”She briefly attended a state school, Kingsmead in Enfield, but did not feel sufficiently challenged. She then went to a private tuition college and achieved five GCSE A*s by the time she was 13.Fatima then studied for A-levels in the sixth form at Seven Kings high school, a comprehensive in Ilford, Essex. She obtained three A*s in A-levels on top of two A grade A-levels taken at her tuition college before the star system was introduced.In September 2010, after taking a year out from her studies, she applied to study medicine, making Merton her first choice. She also applied for a place at University College London and King’s College London.A trip to Somalia five years earlier had inspired her choice of career. She said: “I saw the impact of the civil war, the death and destruction, and people lying on the streets without medical care. It made me think that if I did become a doctor, I would be able to help.”On November 30, she was told by Oxford that she was not being invited for interview, based on her GCSE results and her scores for a BioMedical Admission Test used to assess potential medical students.She appealed and her father alerted David Lammy, the former universities minister who has highlighted the challenges faced by ethnic minorities applying for university. Oxford admitted in December that it had erred in not offering Fatima an interview.It transpired that her GCSE results had not even been considered. An email from preclinical medicine admissions admitted that “the assessment of your application was conducted without reference to your GCSE performance” and explained that this was partly because her exams had not been taken at “a single sitting” and partly because the university had been unable to find any published results for her tuition college.The email, seen by The Sunday Times, added: “The fact that your GCSEs have been achieved at a number of sittings is, in your case, an indication of academic strength rather than weakness and the results that you have achieved must be viewed as excellent in any context.”Fatima’s GCSE results were in fact better than the average GCSE results of students who were offered a place to read medicine in 2010. According to Oxford’s own figures, the average candidate had 9-10 A* grades at GCSE, compared with Fatima’s 11.It conceded that its approach “may have disadvantaged” Fatima and she was offered interviews. However, less than a week after the interviews she was told she was not being offered a place. Her experience is reminiscent of the case of Laura Spence, a state school student whose rejection for a place to study medicine at Oxford University in 2000 caused a political storm.Paul Kelley, headmaster of Monkseaton high school on Tyneside, Spence’s former school, said: “I think the admissions system in many ways has not moved on in the last decade. In America, top universities hunt this kind of person down.” Fatima’s case has emerged as Britain’s leading universities face a challenge over their record in encouraging ethnic minorities. When Fatima was in the midst of her application to Oxford, Lammy released figures which he said showed that 21 out of Oxbridge’s 69 colleges had admitted no black students in the previous year. Merton had not accepted a black student for the five years before 2010, he said.Oxford said it had taken 27 black undergraduates and that 19% of its intake are from ethnic minorities — higher than the population as a whole. The university believes it is being unfairly criticised and is working to broaden its intake. Applications from state schools have risen by 80% over the past decade.Despite some success stories, Oxford’s own analysis shows that a lower percentage of applicants from a number of ethnic minorities are accepted than white applicants. In 2010 black African applicants had an average success rate of 6.7%, while white applicants had a 24.1% success rate. The university argues that part of the problem is that many black applicants choose to apply to its most over-subscribed courses, where competition is fiercest. Nearly 30% of black applicants to Oxford University want to study medicine.Oxford says attainment at school is the single biggest barrier. In 2009, 29,000 white students got the requisite grades for Oxford compared with 452 black students.Fatima, who won a place to read medicine at UCL is not bitter but believes Oxford should scrutinise its admissions procedures to ensure its equality policies are properly implemented.Oxford said in a statement: “We do not discriminate in favour of or against anyone on the basis of race or any other non-academic factor. “Clearly, the candidate in question is academically excellent. However, there were 1,472 applicants this year for only 152 places to study medicine at Oxford, and in the academic judgment of six or more medical experts there were at least 152 other candidates who demonstrated even higher ability and potential through the selection process.” The Sunday Times - Oxford 'off limits' to star black pupil
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- "Will the UN do anything soon to stop the fight between the two Koreas?" a Chinese girl asked. "What can the UN do to help Somalia?," a Somalian girl questioned. "How can you keep young people in school and keep them from terrorist action?" an Italian-American teenager wanted to know. These and other questions were raised at the UN's first Security Council Youth Event 1.0 themed "Your world, your future: voices of a new generation" held here on Tuesday. Around 170 children between the age of 13 and 21 submitted their answer to the question "What is the most vital challenge to peace and security facing your generation?" It's important for the Council to hear from young people, talk with them and benefit from their wisdom as we do our work everyday, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice told Xinhua. Entries arrived from over 90 countries across the globe, in a dozen of languages. Some were written by hand, some were emailed, some were recorded on tape. Among the three "most compelling" submissions was the request of a 17-year old girl from Venezuela if world leaders could " exchange a weapon for a smile" and if the Council could stop to finance war. "Instead, finance our future by providing us health, education, and security," she said in a videomessage. A 20-year old girl from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), who was also among the winners, called on the Council to bring back durable peace to her country. "Once durable peace is achieved, we will have the opportunity to think like other youths, to fulfill ourselves morally, physically, intellectually," she said. A 17-year old boy from Tunisia enunciated that "terrorism is the most serious threat to international peace and security today. " Young people don't just want talk, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon, who also attended the event, said, and referred to the text of a T-shirt of a 17-year-old girl at a recent climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico, stating: "You have been negotiating my whole life, don't tell me you need more time.""The message these young people send us today is very simple and direct: act, deliver, and match words with deeds," the UN chief said.
A girl from Beirut told the Council that she couldn't understand why a war can last so long, and that the most vital challenge to international peace and security facing her generation is "the inheritance of a hateful outlook toward another culture or population from a previous generation."
A 19-year old Czeck girl wrote from Cameroon that "ineffective governance" poses the most essential challenge.
Other issues that were touched on during the session included tackling cyber terrorism, climate change to end poverty and conflict, overcoming water shortages and religious and political polarization of the world.
"I, too, grew up in war. I, too, saw my village destroyed," Ban said.
"Listening to the voices of these young people, I felt very strongly that I could have been one of them," he noted.
"Though I missed some classes at school because of the event today, it was worthy to be here," 14-year-old Yuqing Wang, who moved to New York from China last year, told Xinhua.
In an effort to harness the energy, imagination and initiative of the world's youth in overcoming the challenges facing humankind, the UN proclaimed the International Year of Youth, which started on Aug. 12, 2010.
Somali hawiye criminal murders 16 years old girl in guthenburg Sweden, the murdare was sentenced 16 years in jail . hawiye animal tried to rape her and in the process he murders here.About 85% of Somali immigrants to Sweden and Finland are hawiye people from Mogadishu who fled within the last 5 years.
this is the 16 years old girl which Hawiye bastard murdared
The Swedish government is responsible for jeopardizing the safety of their citizens. When you import hawyie animal into a country, that's like letting lose a herd of wild beasts in a crowded city. Someone is bound to get hurt.I believe that the people of Mogadishu, who tend to be overwhelmingly from a certain clan, have a predisposition towards violent behavior. This would explain the state of their pathetic existence for the past two decades. Most Somalis, from the more civilized tribes, have abandoned Mogadishu to its own devices. And now that certain clan is isolated in that city, free to act upon their savage instincts as they please. When naive Swedes and other Europeans start importing these being into their country, they should be held accountable for the acts they commit. To repeat a cliche line, you can take a hawiyeout of Mogadishu, but you cannot take Mogadishu out of a Hawiye
NAIROBI, 21 March 2011 (IRIN) - With the escalation of fighting across Somalia since January, armed groups have reportedly recruited more child soldiers to their ranks, some even forcing teachers to enlist pupils.
In a recent offensive against rebel groups in Bulo Hawo town on the border with Kenya, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) stated on 17 March, "...children were involved as fighters and a significant number of them were killed. According to reports, intense fighting in the area between Dhusamareb and Ceel bur in Galgadud has also resulted in many child casualties.”
"The TFG [Transitional Federal Government] forces, their allies, the Ahlu Sunna Wal Jama, and Al-Shabab are all engaged in the recruitment. Al-Shabab [the largest armed opposition group] is the biggest culprit," said an official working with an NGO that monitors the state of children in the country. The official, who asked not to be named, did not suggest the African Union's TFG-supporting military mission in Somalia, AMISOM, was also using children.
He said although the exact number of child soldiers was unknown, his group suspected between 2,000 and 3,000 children were in different armed groups.
He added that Al-Shabab was forcing Koranic and other teachers to bring their charges to be trained. "We have noticed a major increase in the recruitment of children since January 2011. It coincided with the current escalation of fighting in Mogadishu and parts of south and central Somalia."
"Putting children in the line of fire, killing and maiming them in the context of an armed conflict are among the most serious violations of international law which all parties to the conflict are expected to uphold. The use and recruitment of children under the age of 15 years is a war crime," said UNICEF Representative to Somalia, Rozanne Chorlton.
The TFG denied it recruited children into its forces. "This government, as a policy, does not recruit nor does it encourage the recruitment of children into the military," government spokesman, Abdi Haji Gobdon, told IRIN.
He said that whenever an underage child was found among government forces they were immediately released and sent back to their families.
Gobdon invited anyone or any group interested "to go to any government military facility and see for themselves".
Missing
Hawa* is a 40-year-old mother of four, whose 13-year-old son was forcibly recruited. "I have been looking for him for the past 15 days," she told IRIN from a camp for the displaced on the outskirts of Mogadishu.
Officials say Al-Shabab, the largest armed opposition group, is the biggest culprit in the recruitment of child soldiers (file photo)
Hawa said Al-Shabab took her son. "I finally got a call from him on Tuesday night [15 March] and I could hear gunfire. He was in a fight. He is too young to be there. I want them to release my boy."
Hawa said she was not the only parent in that situation. "Many mothers are like me. They are looking for their little ones. Mine does not even look like a 13-year-old. He is too small. How can they take him?"
Jailed
The NGO official said children who were not recruited faced other problems as government security forces in the capital, Mogadishu, were reportedly picking up children on suspicion that they "may be working for Al-Shabab”.
"There are a large number of children in government jails, simply because someone suspected that the child could be a militant," he said.
The official claimed he had evidence that many of the young people killed by government and AMISOM troops were children brought from Jowhar [90km north of Mogadishu].
In camps where tens of thousands of displaced are sheltering, or in hospitals in Mogadishu, the "vast majority are children", the official said. "Unfortunately, there is no safe place for them anywhere in this country."
UNICEF also said it was worried about reports of children captured by the TFG and its allies after the fighting in Bulo Hawa. “No detailed information is yet available on the conditions under which they are being held but UNICEF is making efforts to find out more, in order to support the delivery of humanitarian assistance and protection.”
Recruitment "widespread"
In an April 2010 report, the UN said research in June 2009 confirmed that the recruitment of children had become more systematic and widespread. The report says all sides, including the TFG, were recruiting children.
A local journalist, who requested anonymity, told IRIN many displaced families were sending their children to refugee camps in Kenya or to safe parts of Somalia for fear they would be forcibly recruited.
"They [parents] cannot protect them," the journalist said. "Any parent who tries risks losing his or her life.”
According to UN estimates, at least 2.4 million Somalis need help across Somalia. These include IDPs in areas controlled by Al-Shabab: 410,000 in the Afgoye Corridor, 15,200 in the Balad corridor [30km north of Mogadishu] and 55,000 in Dayniile, northwest of Mogadishu.
Some 600,000 Somalis are refugees in neighbouring countries.
May 13 (Bloomberg) -- Tucked behind the shouting dockworkers and fishermen cleaning their nets at the wharf in Bosaso, on the Gulf of Aden in Somalia, there’s a row of decrepit gray skiffs and patrol boats.Strewn with rusted anti-aircraft shells and old mattresses, these dead ships look more like floating homeless shelters than vehicles of terror. Out on the water, though, they played a starring role in a booming criminal enterprise. These are the impounded attack vessels used by Somali pirates to hijack passing cargo ships, private yachts, and even oil tankers.Drive a few hundred yards west along the beach, and there, just past the presidential compound, is a well-worn and crowded jail, with 248 pirates among its 400 prisoners, Bloomberg Businessweek reported in its May 16 issue.
Mohamed Farole, the president of Puntland, insisted that I visit the prison to prove that his tough stand on maritime kidnappers was not just talk. Somalia has not had an effective central government since 1991, and Puntland is one of its seven autonomous regions. Minutes after entering the prison, I met 51-year-old Farah Hirsi Kulan, or “Boyah.”Halfway into an eight-year sentence for piracy, Kulan lounged outside a packed cell block with another famous bandit, Omar Bagaley. A newly arrested 13-year-old, Saynab, sat wedged between Bagaley’s knees on a concrete slab.
False Promise
Back in November 2008, Kulan was the first public face of Somali piracy. Not only was he the region’s chief scoundrel -- he had coordinated the seizure of 25 ships, as he boasted to the BBC in 2009 -- Kulan began a second career as a “reformed” pirate, advocating for pirates to quit, stop the violence, and go to the mosque. Some believed him, until Kulan was apprehended while fleeing a major pirate planning meeting in Garowe, Puntland’s central city, and thrown in jail.Our conversation was brief and loud. Bagaley stabbed the air with his finger, warning me and my interpreter to back off, while Kulan insisted he had ceased to be a pirate before his arrest and was merely a fisherman, enlisted to repel poachers.What money he earned, he shared with friends. This is a common refrain among Somali pirates: that they’re just poor fishermen taking up arms to defend the seas from the predatory practices of foreign poachers. Some will tell you they go to sea to prevent toxic dumping like Greenpeace.
Unglamorous Cargo
The UN Monitoring Group on Somalia estimates that 6.5 percent of the attacks by gangs of Somali men have been against fishing vessels. According to the International Maritime Bureau, or IMB, a London-based not-for-profit group specializing in global commerce, the estimated $150 million to $300 million in ransom money paid out last year was provided to free the crews of bulk carriers, container ships, and other vessels carrying unglamorous and lightly protected cargo.
Some of that was paid to recover private yachtsmen. And while a pirate’s take may trickle down to friends, President Farole said most burn through cash conspicuously on Land Cruisers, lavish parties, and a steady supply of qat, a mild stimulant chewed like tobacco and imported from Kenya.
Saynab, the 13-year-old would-be pirate, clearly admired his elders in the yard. His implausible story was that he set sail with the pirates to learn how to fish.It was Friday, and he was being visited in jail by his 32- year-old mother and two-year-old brother. His mother blamed herself for Saynab’s predicament.“I only started looking for him 22 days after he disappeared,” she said. “I thought he just sailed away.”
Waging War
Later that afternoon, when I mentioned Kulan and Bagaley to Farole, laughter broke out in the room. “They think they own the world,” Farole said.In his third year as the leader of Puntland, the former banker and doctorate candidate at Melbourne’s La Trobe University has stepped up his war on the pirates with plans that combine community activism with a new law enforcement group funded by an anonymous donor.In the past 90 days, Farole says, pirates have been pushed from fishing ports to Puntland’s smaller communities. Elders and residents of coastal towns such as Eyl, Bargal, Laasqoray, and Bosaso have all taken stands against the brigands and their followers. Pirates are forbidden to come ashore, store owners are banned from selling goods to pirates, and pamphlets declare their money to be “haram,” or against the tenets of Islam.
Powerful Draw
Despite the imported firepower and the support of residents, Farole’s dismissal of Kulan may be years premature. The idea of sailing off to find riches and adventure is a powerful draw, especially for young men with few employment options. When the president hears about the gullible teenager sitting in prison, he is visibly disturbed.He turns to his ministers in the room and says, “Get him out of there: Piracy is no business for a child.”Piracy is a crime, but it is above all a business, and right now it’s a high-volume one. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime reported that 1,011 pirates are on trial or in jail in 20 countries, and neither deadly military responses nor harsh sentences have slowed the attacks or piracy’s spread.There have been 97 pirate attacks in the Somali region in the first quarter of 2011 out of 142 worldwide, according to the IMB. That’s up 177 percent from a year earlier. At the moment, more than 480 people are being held hostage on more than four dozen ships in Somali waters, all awaiting ransom and rescue.
Tanker Ransom
Business is booming, in part, because ransoms keep getting larger. On April 7, Intertanko, an organization of independent tanker owners, reportedly paid $13.5 million for the release of its Very Large Crude Carrier Irene SL, topped up with 1.8 million barrels of Kuwaiti crude.
The $200 million worth of oil didn’t interest the hijackers. Instead, they used the 1,000-foot-long tanker as a destroyer-class warship. European Union Naval Force, or EU Navfor, which tracks piracy from its U.K. headquarters, reported that the Irene SL pulled up alongside freighters as pirates fired down on their victims from the tanker’s hull.To score their $13.5 million payout, the pirates held the Irene SL’s 25-man crew for 58 days. That two-month investment netted them a 26,900 percent return on estimated expenses of $50,000, according to Andrew Mwangura, maritime editor of Somalia Report. More typically, Mwangura figures, crews raise $300,000 to chase a $4 million ransom.
Shipping companies ballpark the impact of pirates on their trillion-dollar shipping business at $7 billion to $12 billion per year, according to Ocean Beyond Piracy figures presented at a Dubai antipiracy conference in April.
Gulf of Aden
Some 23,000-plus vessels pass through the Gulf of Aden annually. This includes tankers carrying 40 percent of the world’s crude oil. Running a decent-size cargo ship costs $15,000 to $50,000 per day, according to Hart, a British-owned security firm with offices in Singapore, Cyprus, and the United Arab Emirates, among others.A cargo ship will typically make the Gulf of Aden passage in three days. It would take a similar ship three and a half weeks to go around the Horn of Africa.Ironically, piracy in the Gulf of Aden partially grew out of efforts in the late 1990s by the same Hart security outfit to train Somali militias as a self-sufficient coast guard. When the Puntland government fell in 2000, the transition from coast guard to piracy took about a day.Enterprising sailors such as Boyah and 38-year-old Mohamad Abdi Garaad grabbed guns and began boarding unsuspecting fishing vessels operated by Thai, Spanish, and Chinese companies, demanding “fines” of $20,000 to $50,000.
Early Piracy
A ship could be released if money were paid to a member of the Somali diaspora anywhere from London to Nairobi. Payment confirmed, the ship and crew were sent on their way. Initially, some of the militia discipline held, and any pirate using violence or damaging the ship would be fined or kicked out.This early piracy still seemed like a tabloid hoax, at least until 2005, when Somali coast guards hired to protect a Thai fishing boat, the Sirichainava 12, seized the ship and demanded $800,000 for its release.The mutineers were overpowered, but the idea stuck. Why accept cash to protect ships when it was just as easy to demand a ransom? In 2006, there were 10 to 20 reported piracy attacks. The next year they doubled, and ransoms climbed to $1.5 million.Using funds from successful hijackings, pirates poured the money back into ships and crews, and in 2008 piracy began in earnest. That year there were 134 pirate attacks and 32 hijackings. It was also the year that the first oil-carrying supertanker, the Sirius Star, was pirated, an act that caught the attention of terrorism analysts and military planners.
Main Groups
At present the IMB and Navfor believe there are 10 principal pirate groups, some operating with more enthusiasm than professionalism. After a number of violent responses to piracy by the world’s navies, the trade is becoming even uglier.On Feb. 19, four Americans on a round-the-world trip got caught up in a botched rescue attempt and paid with their lives. At least three Danish children were being held hostage even after the ship they were held on had been returned to its owner.One reason for piracy’s rise is that, while the risks of prison and death are high, it’s easy for startups to gain market share. All you need is a fishing boat and a relationship with one of the “big three” money men -- or a relationship with someone who has a relationship.If you have successfully grabbed ships in the past and have a decent crew, one of the big three, known by their nicknames, Boyah, Garaad, and Afweyne, will back you for 50 percent of expenses. Then you need to canvas the eight small backers who are good for 25 percent. In all, it takes around $300,000 for a solid run, according to Mwangura at Somalia Report.
Expenses List
Expenses break down as follows: weapons and ammo ($2,000); skiffs and outboards ($14,000); grappling hooks and curved ladders ($1,200); GPS and radios ($4,000); food ($70,000); miscellaneous equipment ($30,000); bribes ($180,000). Once you take hostages, allot $15,000 to pay the land crew to watch over them and the hijacked ship.Ambitious pirates use rusty skiffs to board and control a “mother ship,” a larger vessel that can deliver a good ransom but can also provide fuel, food, water, and shelter as a staging platform for more attacks farther out to sea.Eventually, when you are pressed too hard by the world’s navies, or the mother ship runs out of supplies, you can always abandon ship and grab another.
Naturally, pirates have specialized to make themselves more valuable to gang leaders. A pirate intel crew identifies ships and tracks them via their automatic identification system, or AIS. Once a ship has been taken, pirates use the ship’s phone to call a trusted negotiator. Meanwhile, they anchor the ships offshore. According to NATO, about a quarter of pirate attacks are successful, and most pirated ships yield a ransom.
Testing Patience
What pirates must excel at is waiting. From the adrenaline rush of attack to the moment of payoff can stretch to a tedious 153 days, a long time to be responsible for 25 or 30 hostages.Ransoms are set based on previous payouts. The $13.5 million paid for the Irene SL was an extreme high; the IMB says $2 million to $3 million is a more standard ask. The average payout has been creeping upward as negotiators get smarter and push for automatic insurance payments for cargo or ships.Western hostages on small pleasure craft, a different business altogether, are worth about $500,000 each, but these operations often result in violent retribution.
Rescue Missions
Increasingly, the French, Americans, and Danes will either try to rescue their citizens or go after pirates once a ransom is paid. Overall, that $300,000 investment should yield a payoff of at least $600,000 to $1 million. The lucky can score anywhere from $1.5 million to $8 million. But this is a business: Shoot a crew member, destroy the cargo, damage the ship, and your ransom will be less and take much longer to collect.Generally speaking, pirate takes are split among several groups. Thirty percent goes to the maritime crew, with a bonus of a Land Cruiser to the first pirate that lands on the ship.The ground crew that watches the ship and hostages for extended periods receives 10 percent. Another 10 percent gets splashed around with local elders, community, and politicians. Twenty percent goes to the little backers. And the big boss receives 30 percent.There are a lot of fingers in the piracy pie, and it’s not just pirates profiting under the equatorial sun.Increasingly, piracy is but one part of a larger economy that includes maritime insurance, with its cash payments and cash transaction fees; hostage negotiators; an antipiracy equipment manufacturing sector; and, inevitably, soldier-of- fortune protection services.
Dubai Sunset
“Looks like they are getting another ransom ready,” joked Jim Heycock, a silver-haired former commando, noting that the lights are still on at the bank down below.We were on the rooftop deck of the Grosvenor House hotel in Dubai as the sunset. Like his boss, Richard Westbury, the owner of Hart, Heycock is a former member of the SAS, the British special forces. Retired and in his fifties, Heycock explained that banks here stay open after hours to count and bundle the multimillion-dollar ransoms.Every part of the piracy business has an expert now, and while Hart offers a full complement of security services, Heycock and Westbury have lately focused on getting replacement crews to hostage ships and delivering the ransoms.“In the old days, the standard pirate ransom was around $2 million,” Heycock said. “That ransom, in new, sequential, Treasury-wrapped U.S. $100 bills, fits nicely in a large legal briefcase and weighs under 50 pounds.” He smiled. “It’s a reassuring heft.”
Booming Business
Business has never been better.
“We made $1.9 million in the last 28 days,” said Heycock. He stared at the lights below and pulled on a Cuban cigar. “We are not here to save Somalia,” said Westbury. “It’s not a solution to piracy, it’s a business plan to make money.”Westbury agreed that insurance is the grease that keeps the security business in gear. Hart has a partnership with an insurance company to package its services.
Hugh Martin is part of a small group of high-risk insurance brokers willing to play in the area of piracy. A kidnap-and- ransom, or K&R, specialist, Martin works at Swinglehurst in London, far from the skull-cracking heat of Somalia. Swinglehurst is a family-owned business founded in 1999. Like the pirates, Swinglehurst’s individual insurance policies are underwritten by anonymous investors.
Competing Parties
“When you look at shipping, you are looking at three elements: the owners, the charterer, and the facility company that runs the ship. They often compete with each other,” Martin said. “None want to spend any money they don’t have to, and none want to be involved in liability regarding loss or damage to crew or cargo, so they turn to insurance companies to remove that risk.”For the insurance companies, piracy is just another game of arbitrage. Worldwide, IMB estimates, 18 vessels have been hijacked in the Gulf of Aden this year, 45 vessels have been boarded, and another 45 ships have been fired on.That’s a significant number, though still less than 1 percent of the total shipping traffic. That means piracy remains a decent insurance bet. Swinglehurst and Hart have created a package. The three-day run will cost a ship operator an additional $180,000 for insurance, security prep, and gunmen.
Martin points out that the highly competitive shipping industry is driven primarily by the need to cut costs.“Insurance premiums for the Gulf of Aden area have gone up tenfold and now twentyfold,” he says. “In addition, loss of income caused by a hijack can hit the bottom line, so K&R specialists are under the gun to come to quick agreements, but not accept initial demands too easily.”
Legal Ransoms
It is legal to pay ransoms in the U.K., Martin says, because piracy is not considered theft since the pirates intend to return property and people and the ransom is not supporting organized crime because it ensures the safe return of property and life. If shipping companies do feel the pain of piracy, they pass on the cost to the consumer; shippers through the Gulf of Aden generally tack on $1 per container foot, according to Maersk Line, the world’s largest shipping business.In Maersk’s Copenhagen offices, I met with Lars Lorenzen, the company’s head of security. Lorenzen views piracy as a manageable risk, just one line in a complex matrix of calculations that shipping companies must make every day.
Maersk Alabama
While the April 2009 seizure of Maersk Alabama was a high- profile case, Lorenzen says Maersk has kept pirate losses to a minimum. He credits good security management procedures, rerouting ships, and training with keeping his other ships out of the hands of Somali pirates.Lorenzen and Erik Rabjerg Nielsen, Maersk’s head of daily operations for container freight, calculate that piracy cost Maersk $100 million in 2010. This year it expects to spend $200 million. That works out to an additional $100 to $200 on every $3,000 container-shipment bill.Bryan Toki is a 21-year veteran of the New Zealand army and former rugby forward. He is also the man you go to in order to improve your chances of safe passage through the Gulf of Aden.Despite two decades of military training, he was never interested in becoming a hired gun. “A lot of my mates were lured to Iraq, I wasn’t,” he says. “I knew if I went there, I would never come back.”Instead, Toki became an anti-pirate profiteer. He puts together teams of Western security guards to equip, man, or accompany ships from Southeast Asia to Nigeria to Yemen. He’s done about 120 missions, he says, and averages three or four a month. Toki estimates his crews encounter pirates on about 20 percent of their runs.
Malacca Straits
“Back in 2004, we started in the Malacca Straits and made $8 million,” said Toki over a drink at Le Meridian Hotel in Dubai. “We were successful because we put $300,000 into the legal side of the business to find out what is right and what is wrong. A vessel has a right of safe passage from point A to B. But if we start doing our drills, we can be seen as a threat to the sovereignty of the nation whose waters we are in.”To keep pirates at bay, Toki’s team first must survey and “harden” the ship, working with the captain and then training the crew. The team goes over emergency drills, welds plates on weak entry points, puts barbed wire on accessible decks, and trains for attack on the vessel.The enemy is always innovating. “The pirates are not stupid,” Toki said. “They are very aware, far more aware than we are. The pirates even run three shifts now, one in the water, one on land, and one on leave.”
Clock Ticks
Once at sea, and depending on the client, Toki’s team either runs an armed escort or positions men prominently on the ships. “We do more with our binoculars and radios than our guns.” Toki notes.
“Fifteen minutes is the average time it takes from the time a crew spots a pirate attack until they are on board. When the pirates attack, they do so in small boats, often in multiples trying to confuse and overwhelm the ship,” he said.Toki and his crews have a number of tricks up their sleeves, ranging from the use of ordinary fire hoses to dropping 20-kilogram iron weights on the fragile fiberglass skiffs that come up alongside a ship.“The last thing we would do would be to shoot someone,” he said. “The idea is to deter. If you’re driving a VIP through Baghdad, I would be low-profile. But out here, you want to be visible.”Restraint has made Toki’s business valuable. It also frustrates him. Piracy can be assessed and accounted for like any other maritime threat, but that doesn’t make it less evil.
‘This is Business’
In March, Toki and Hart were hired by the owner of the Rak Afrikana, a bulk cargo carrier with steel and cement on board, to deliver a ransom and tow the disabled rig back home. The ship and its Indian crew had been held hostage for 332 days.The pirates finally settled for $1.2 million, down from their $3.5 million demand, because the ship had sprung a leak. As Toki’s men hooked up the slowly sinking ship, he could see the other large vessels being held, but not yet ransomed.He was haunted by the sight of Chinese sailors, rail-thin with beards down to their waist, waving for salvation on a nearby ship.
“I had a 50-cal. on the bow, and I wanted to open up on those bastards who were holding them and free those poor souls,” Toki recalls. “But I had to remind myself, this is a business.”
Life can be lonely on the high seas and one pirate has decided enough is enough, it's about time he got himself a wife. But the Somali pirate chief has taken a fancy to his 13-year-old Danish hostage - and he is so besotted with her he's willing to let the rest of her family go free, and even forget the $5million dollar ransom his pirate colleagues demanded. According to The Times, the pirate made the bizarre proposal during a conversation with a Danish reporter, who visited the African nation to track down the Johansen family who were taken hostage in the Indian Ocean more than a month ago.
Marry me? 13-year-old Naja Johansen, third from left, is wanted as the wife of a Somali pirate chief
Jan Quist Johansen, his wife Birgit Marie Johansen, their sons Rune and Hjalte and their daughter Naja, were kidnapped along with their two crewmen. Their yacht was hijacked in the Indian ocean 260 miles from the coast just weeks from completing the end of their two-year voyage. They have been trapped on board the previously hijacked MS Dover, along with 20 other hostages, since February 24.
The reporter, from the tabloid Ekstra Bladet, was not allowed to speak to the family, but he spoke to the chief pirate who apparently revealed his plans for a bride. The terrifying proposal puts more pressure on the authorities and hostage negotiators to free the family. If the Danes give me permission to marry the girl, I will free the rest without any condition,' Kristian Kornoe quoted the pirate chief as saying.
The reporter, who assumed the offer was never going to be accepted, said: 'The father, Jan, seemed completely exhausted, even ill.
'The rest of the family is tired and angry. The smell is unbearable ... it is hot, the water is filthy.' Henrik Ljung, a senior Danish psychologist, said 'The offer of marriage was simply a way of applying psychological pressure, a show of force. 'It’s an extremely effective tool if you want to raise money.'
An armed Somali pirate along the coastline. The Johansen's yacht was hijacked in Somali waters 260 miles from the coast, on February 24, just weeks from completing the end of their two-year voyage
Somali pirate Abdullahi Mohamed said earlier this month the gang responsible for the kidnap would kill all seven hostages if any attempt was made to rescue them.
The family, from Kalundborg, 75 miles west of Copenhagen, were planning to enter the Mediterranean through the Suez canal from the Red Sea. That route would take the family through the Gulf of Aden, one of the most dangerous waterways in the world in terms of piracy. It is the first time children have been captured. Two days before they were captured Americans Jean and Scott Adam and Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle were killed after their boats were seized by Somali pirates.
Paul and Rachel Chandler after their 13 month ordeal at the hands of a Somali pirate gang. They were freed after 388 days in captivity
It is hoped that the Danish crew will be able to survive the ordeal as was the case with British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler, who were finally released in November 2010 after 388 days in captivity in return for a secret £625,000 ransom. Earlier on the same day that the Danish vessel was captured, Somali pirates also hijacked a Greek-owned cargo vessel with 23 crew on board. The MV Dover was seized in the north Arabian sea, 260 miles north-east of the Omani port of Salalah. There are three Romanians, 19 Filipinos and a Russian aboard the Panama-flagged vessel.
MOGADISHU, March 25 (Xinhua) -- A lawyers' association in Somalia Wednesday described the International Criminal Court's (ICC) arrest warrant for the Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir as "illegal and against the international law." The statement from Somali Lawyers Association (SLA) comes as the result of a workshop held Wednesday by members of the association in the Somali capital Mogadishu and attended by Somali government officials including the Somali Attorney General Abdullahi Daahir Barre who supported the lawyers' statement. "Since Sudan is not a signatory to the court statues and founding principles of the ICC, any ruling from such an institution is non-binding on Sudan in the eyes of the International law," the lawyers' statement said. .. more..http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/26/content_11073177.htm I don’t know where to start! There's no such thing as somali Lawyers Association (SLA)..There are is no legal systems in somalia ..what so ever..Don't Know if they just talkin' about it.. sharia law
MOGADISHU: Extremist militiamen beheaded two clerics from a rival group after stopping the vehicle taking them to be treated for wounds suffered in a gunbattle, a spokesman for the clerics’ group said.The clerics were members of Ahlu Sunna Waljama, which had been fighting against al-Shabab militiamen in the town of Balad, about 30 kilometres from the capital Mogadishu, said spokesman Sheik Abdullahi Sheik Abu Yusuf. Abu Yusuf blamed Terrorist al-Shabab for the beheadings on Thursday but said the clerics were not involved in the earlier fighting. Al-Shabab controls large chunks of the country, while battling government troops and African Union peacekeepers. Abu Yusuf said the clerics were unarmed when they were wounded. “They did not take part in the recent clashes,” Abu Yusuf told The Associated Press late on Friday. He said his group was defending itself against from al-Shabab attacks. Al-Shabab Terrorist was not immediately available for comment. US counterterrorism officials have warned of Al Qaeda’s growing ties with Somalia’s powerful Terrorist al-Shabab militants. Last year, the US State Department added al-Shabab, which means “the Youth”,” to its list of foreign terrorist organisations. ap http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/21/africa/AF-Somalia.php Somali Islamists behead two sheikhs
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