Paraphrased:
Illegal fishing is happening off the coast of Somalia. Fishing boats from France, Spain, Greece, UK, Norway, Russia, Taiwan - it's a free-for-all. And those countries' navies and warships are there, protecting their own illegal fishing vessels. A tremendous injustice.
Toxic dumping, industrial waste dumping, nuclear dumping has also been going on for the last 30 years. To avoid strict environmental rules in their own countries, where else to take it, but to countries in conflict or weak countries who could not prevent them or who could be bought.
When the marine resources of Somalia were pillaged, when the waters were poisoned, when the fish was stolen, and in a poverty situation in the whole country, the fishermen felt that they had no other possibilities or other recourse but to fight the properties and the shipping of the same countries that have been carrying on the fishing piracy and toxic dumping.
Mohamed Abshir Waldo, interviewed by Amy Goodman on DemocracyNow
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/4/14/analysis_somalia_piracy_began_in_response
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