In 1991, the government of Somalia collapsed. Its 9 million people have been teetering on starvation ever since, and forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to steal the country's food supply and dump our nuclear waste in their seas. This is the context in which the men we are calling "pirates" have emerged. So who is the real robber? |
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