Thailand must be a hungry place to see,even in this remote area of africa(somalia) we have this problem of illegal fishing with both the thailand illegal fishing and spanish illegal vessels,they traval all around from thailand to fish in african water and the somali pirates teach them lesson,just 2012,4 thailand vessels were captured,put in prison,sanctioned with huge load of money ransom,flogged and whipped,threatened with destruction of the vessels ,they cries never to come back and demanded to be released but after were released after 4 years in captivity.
Somali pirates free Thai fishermen held for four years
It is believed that they spent longer in captivity than any other victims of Somali piracy.
At one time Somali pirates made millions of dollars in ransoms.
but i say,they still do that bussiness,even nato cant stop the pirates beacause of budget and other urgent regional issues like south china sea,mediterrean sea etc.
"We collected them from a remote area," Omar Sheikh Ali, an official in Somalia's central Galmudug administration, was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
They called their families by phone and cried and cried and cried," he said.
It is not known whether any ransom was paid for the releases. One unconfirmed report claims $150,000 (£97,000) was handed over while another says $1m (£650,000) was paid.
He said six members of the original crew of 24 died of illness, while another
14 from Myanmar were released in May 2011.
how the hell a myanmar fisherman reach the coast of africa illegally fishing,they will just die in the captivity.poor soul
Somali pirates are still holding 26 more hostages from another vessel .of the captured were spanish vessels also illegal fishing
