The Russian government has come up with a plan to detain those pirates who are being captured off of the coast of Somalia. The UN has bitten off on it and it may help, but as long as piracy remains as profitable as it is there will never be a shortage of pirates to fill in and take the place of those who are captured.
The biggest problem is that piracy has been so profitable to a country where abject poverty is the norm. Any plan to detain pirates should also be a part of another plan to make piracy not profitable enough to pursue. I don’t know how the profit motive could actually be taken out of piracy but there may be a way.
The Kenyan government was detaining captured pirates but it ceased doing so because it caused problems in their justice system. Now the problem remains for the international community to solve. My first question is who should have to detain the captured criminals? No one wants to add malfactors to their population so what do you do?
Maybe a prison on the order of the one that the French used in Guyana would work. If there is a large unpopulated island somewhere that they could be sent to. I don’t know how well that that solution would tie into international protocol but it is a thought. If any of you military ring customers out there have any ideas please let me know.
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