How To Handle Somali Pirates

The Russians know how:

Further explanation:

RUSSIAN NAVY CAPTURES SOMALI PIRATES

How about that - the Russians captured the pirates, tied them up, put them on the boats, then set them all on fire - puff, no more pirates. All quite logical and simple.

This video shows Russian Navy commandos on a Somalian pirate ship shortly after the pirates had captured a Russian oil tanker. Tsk tsk. Wrong country to, apparently, screw with.

The Euro Union navy that patrols these waters would not interfere because they feared there could be "casualties."

All explanations are in Russian with the single exception of when a wounded pirate says something in English and the Russian soldier says "This is not a fishing boat." All conversations between the commandos are in Russian. If you don't understand Russian, the pictures speak for themselves.

The soldiers freed their compatriots and the tanker. The Russian Navy Commandos moved the pirates back to their own (pirate) ship, searched the pirate ship for weapons and explosives, documented the guns and rifles with video, and then left the ship and exploded it with all remaining pirates hand-cuffed on board.

The commandos sank the pirate ship along with the pirates and without any bothersome court proceedings, lawyers, hearings etc. That is, they used the anti-piracy laws of the 18th and 19th centuries where the captain of a rescuing ship can decide what to do with pirates. Usually, they were hanged. In this case, some high-order explosives worked quite effectively.

BZ

P.S.

Thanks, Don!