[Peace-discuss] Forget "Accountability" for Somali Pirates

[Karen Medina]

Thank you Mr. Naiman for the articles. The recent shooting of the 3
Somali pirates bothers me tremendously.

Naiman wrote: > the U.S. insisted that the pirates give themselves up
to arrest and prosecution.

By insisting this, the US was tilting all the options to have a
violent outcome.

Naiman wrote: > This risk will now be even greater in any future
standoff: any Somali pirate in such a situation in the future is going
to be less likely to trust the U.S., and more likely to harm an
American captive

By shooting these pirates, we raised the stakes to life and death on a
different scale. It is no longer possible for the pirates to take the
money and let the people live. Now, much more than it had been up to
this moment, they are hunted animals.

* Feingold: the only solution to Somali piracy is to support the
establishment of effective government in Somalia.
* Rep. Donald Payne opposed the Bush Administration-backed Ethiopian
invasion of Somalia, which removed a government that largely put a
stop to piracy.

Good for them.

> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/forget-accountability-for_b_186580.html
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/14/719842/-Forget-Accountability-for-Somali-Pirates

* Representative Donald M. Payne of New Jersey is the chairman of the
House subcommittee on Africa