Post by Admin on Jan 31, 2012 9:32:57 GMT
Why are they spending 69 Million A YEAR of british tax payers money, when the UK is in real mess?
No Jobs No industry No Common Sense
The British need to get off there arse holes and wake up!
I WAS BROUGHT UP TO SWEEP INSIDE BEFORE THE OUTSIDE!
PRISONERS grasp the bars of a hell-hole jail cell — a stark warning of the fate that awaits Somalia's notorious pirates.
The strife-torn East African country is finally winning the battle against the seaborne hijackers who shame its name.
The Sun yesterday saw the grim prison where 17 suspected pirates are among 75 captives jammed into a cell built for four.
Murderers and al Shabaab terrorists also endure 24 hours a day in a sweltering, dark cage with no basic sanitation.
Any prisoner rattling the cell's single door has his hands bashed by hosepipe-wielding guards.
The jail in the town of Garowe shows how justice is dealt out in Puntland, a semi-autonomous area of northern Somalia free from fanatical Islamic control.
Some of the £69million annual British aid to Somalia goes on combating the pirates. But Puntland's planning minister Abdulkadir Abki Hashi defended the harsh prison regime.
He said: "What's the alternative? You want us to release them? We don't have the money to incarcerate them in space that is conducive for the human rights ideal, so we do what we must to stop them hijacking more ships.
"Piracy is a crime, we take it very seriously. It is very embarrassing for us to have pirates so we are determined to catch them."
British aid to Puntland has paid for the training of detectives, lawyers and judges to deal with the pirate scourge.
There are now 35 legal officials in Garowe — up from just seven a year ago. And some of the cash will go to a bigger prison with better conditions. About 1,000 Somali pirates are now in jails in 20 countries around the Horn of Africa. Ten ships and 247 hostages are still being held for ransom — down from 26 ships a year ago.
Warships from around the globe have joined the Royal Navy in patrolling the waters off Somalia's 1,000 miles of coastline.
But the success against piracy has seen an alarming increase in the number of Western aid workers, journalists and tourists kidnapped on land.
Full story
www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4097799/Somalia-news-Evil-pirates-are-caged-in-Somalia.html
No Jobs No industry No Common Sense
The British need to get off there arse holes and wake up!
I WAS BROUGHT UP TO SWEEP INSIDE BEFORE THE OUTSIDE!
PRISONERS grasp the bars of a hell-hole jail cell — a stark warning of the fate that awaits Somalia's notorious pirates.
The strife-torn East African country is finally winning the battle against the seaborne hijackers who shame its name.
The Sun yesterday saw the grim prison where 17 suspected pirates are among 75 captives jammed into a cell built for four.
Murderers and al Shabaab terrorists also endure 24 hours a day in a sweltering, dark cage with no basic sanitation.
Any prisoner rattling the cell's single door has his hands bashed by hosepipe-wielding guards.
The jail in the town of Garowe shows how justice is dealt out in Puntland, a semi-autonomous area of northern Somalia free from fanatical Islamic control.
Some of the £69million annual British aid to Somalia goes on combating the pirates. But Puntland's planning minister Abdulkadir Abki Hashi defended the harsh prison regime.
He said: "What's the alternative? You want us to release them? We don't have the money to incarcerate them in space that is conducive for the human rights ideal, so we do what we must to stop them hijacking more ships.
"Piracy is a crime, we take it very seriously. It is very embarrassing for us to have pirates so we are determined to catch them."
British aid to Puntland has paid for the training of detectives, lawyers and judges to deal with the pirate scourge.
There are now 35 legal officials in Garowe — up from just seven a year ago. And some of the cash will go to a bigger prison with better conditions. About 1,000 Somali pirates are now in jails in 20 countries around the Horn of Africa. Ten ships and 247 hostages are still being held for ransom — down from 26 ships a year ago.
Warships from around the globe have joined the Royal Navy in patrolling the waters off Somalia's 1,000 miles of coastline.
But the success against piracy has seen an alarming increase in the number of Western aid workers, journalists and tourists kidnapped on land.
Full story
www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4097799/Somalia-news-Evil-pirates-are-caged-in-Somalia.html