What Happened to the Somali Pirates?

Where are the Somali Pirates?
The Somali Pirates were a major part of the Somali Civil War. Taking huge cruisers for ransom, they wreaked havoc on global trade. But what happened to them? Ever since 2013 they have pretty much stopped. Where are they?

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[Jajam-]

^^ the president was displaced for a lot of reasons tbh, he was like most dictators suspicious af and often murdered his own millirary officers, the tipping point was when he murdered 40 scholars after a legalisation disagreement

[Kudejo]

Pirates? Nah, They're the Somali Coast Guard

[Billswiftgti]

You failed to mention anti piracy units operating on comercial ships. Most likely this is the real reason of the piracy decline.

[casey]

One unmentioned and amazing part of this conflict: it managed to get the US and North Korea on the same side of an incident (the Dai Hong Dan Incident), when a U.S. Navy helicopter and assault team off a destroyer helped retake a North Korean merchant ship from pirates. The North Korean government even released an uncharacteristically positive press release thanking the United States for being partners in preventing terrorism and piracy.

Reality is infinitely stranger and more interesting than fiction.

[chubbycatfish]

I remember a US warship escorting a transport ship to Somalia. The warship sat off the coast of Somalia, waiting for the civilian ship to unload and return, when a group of pirates tried to board it. Apparently, they thought it was the cargo ship. Well, they soon regretted that decision...

[pwrbyford]

I served on the USS Enterprise, and deployed in 2011 & 2012. We chased pirates all the time, especially in 2011. Even had Somali prisoners taken on board after the quest incident. I always thought it was ridiculous that a super carrier was chasing these small boats around.

[ahmedopone]

3:20 Siad barre didn’t actually flee the country. It is one of the reasons things got out of hand. He delegated authority to the opposition but since he didn’t fulfil the last demand “leave the country” some groups used it as a pretext to delegitimise the new govt (as his puppets). The rest is history.

[winwalker]

Two things: militaries intended to curb piracy actually curbed the cannery vessels which harvested the fisheries. This turned fisherman back to fishing. Number 2, insurance underwriters required armed guards on vessels passing by. The pirates were quite extraordinary in the lengths they went to.

[MarkfrmCanada]

I was in that area in 2014 with the Canadian navy and saw what commercial ships in that area look like up close. I think the razor wire and obvious MG emplacements probably had more to do with the drop than anything else.
They didn't have the guns there most of the time for legal reasons, but what happens at sea stays at sea and I know an emplacement when I see one.

[svetliodoychinov]

Imagine living like a medieval peasant barely surviving then some local boys tell you about the millions you can get, securing your life and probably the life of your entire community by demanding ranson off this giant ass ships. You group up with your boys go on the boat and you are met with a task force of half the world with giant ships capable of desintegrating your shitty village for seconds.

[zlozlozlo]

As far as I know a whole private defense industry has sprung up around this issue. Security contractors board the ships, armed with assault rifles. They build fortified positions in high places using sandbags and such. Sometimes firing in the air and letting the pirates know the ship is defended is enough. But when the pirates are determined, there is a shootout and the attackers get smoked, because the defenders have a superior firing position. To my knowledge no ship defended this way has ever been taken over by the pirates. I would think a video about Somali piracy would at least have a mention of this.

[jf-fl]

In 2012 it actually got so bad that the Royal Navy had to defend ships. And, get this, some giga chad pirates tried to pirate a Royal Navy destroyer. You can guess at how well that went of course (after the Royal Navy told them to back off or they will shoot, they didn’t back of and got sent to the 4th dimension by a missile still half a mile away from the vessel) but the thought of being so hungry that you try to attack a super advanced warship with long range torpedoes and manned by some of the best soldiers in the world (Royal Marines). My word. Imagine being that desperate

[mangobanana]

Mercenaries killed it, I remember back then it became common to see guns on shipping vessels passing through there, not much a tiny motor boat can do against a few armed guards on top of the deck, the guards have cover and elevation while the tiny motorboats were out in the open.

[toxicman]

Can anyone honestly say they’d do any differently? If your family was starving, and foreign fishing vessels were stealing their only potential source of food, can anyone honestly say they’d react differently?

[FirstDagger]

You totally missed that merchant ships have watercannons, armed guards and boarding prevention measures now, a huge oversight when talking about the topic.

[y.g.]

Good vid! While international coalitions and improvements on land did help to put an end to piracy, the major factor which is often forgotten is that most ships transiting in the area had private security companies or other kinds of attack prevention routines that drastically reduce the rate of successful hijacking. Once it became hard to make a profit, stakeholders stopped investing in piracy.

[dankdunk]

I love your script and sense of humor in it.

[kizermason]

I'm surprised Ethiopia doesn't just invade during their anarchic period

[princebob]

It's sad what has happened to my great nation Somalia :( worse yet other nations say they want to help but in reality they want to exploit Somalia with neo-colonialism. I hate how foreigners come and mess things up in Somalia when we're at one of our lowest points in history.

[ponycentaur]

7:50 Another huge part of it was the hiring of Mercenaries. the idea for each mercenary groups:Two major ships would sit before and after Somalia waters. Your ship would pick up afew with weapons, and head to the other side, all under protection of a gun and a flag on yoru ship to warn that you have armed gaurds. When you past somalia, the security would get off into the other ship and get a quick ride back to original area.