Saturday, December 10, 2011

What about the Coast Guard?

With all this talk about piracy, one would wonder what is the government of Somalia doing to address piracy?

Well there is a Coast Guard that is meant to address piracy however piracy is more evolved then the Somalia Coast Guard and also the Coast Guard is corrupt.

"Far from being a neutral state actor, the Puntland Coast Guard of the late 1990s and early 2000s worked as a private militia for the protection of commercial trawlers in possession of "fishing licences"-informal documents arbitrarily sold by various government bureaucrats for personal profit" (The Pirates of Somalia, 30).

As the quote describes, the Puntland Coast Guard is not truly a Coast Guard more of a private security body guards for commercial boats.

Puntland Coast Guard
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