Article: Toxic waste behind Somali pirates.

ByAaChristine WilsonAaThe international community has come out in force to condemn and declare war on the Somali fishermen pirates, while discreetly protecting the illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fleets from around the world that have been poaching and dumping toxic waste in Somali waters since the fall of the Somali government eighteen years ago.In 1991, when the government of Somalia collapsed, foreign interests seized the opportunity to begin looting the countryAAEs food supply and using the countryAAEs unguarded waters as a dumping ground for nuclear and other toxic waste.According to the High Seas Task Force (HSTF), there were over 800 IUU fishing vessels in ...

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