On today's #TheMoreYouKnow we take you to how and why the West decided to call them "Somali Pirates" ๐ธ๐ด
What the West fails to tell its citizens is that after the government of Somalia ๐ธ๐ด collapsed in 1991, its nine million people began teetering on starvation because the Western world ๐ช๐บ๐บ๐ธ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฆtook advantage of the opportunity to steal the country's food supply and dump its nuclear waste in their seas.
Mysterious ๐ช๐บ European ships started appearing off the coast of Somalia, dumping vast barrels into the ocean. Immediately the coastal population began to sicken ๐ฆ ๐งซ. At first they suffered strange rashes, nausea and malformed babies. Then, after the 2005 tsunami, hundreds of the dumped and leaking barrels washed up on shore. โ ๏ธ People began to suffer from radiation sickness, and many died โข๏ธ Much of it can be traced back to European hospitals and factories that begain passing it on to the ๐ฎ๐น Italian mafia to "dispose" of cheaply.
At the same time, other European ships began looting Somalia's seas of their greatest resource โฆ seafood. Their greed had already destroyed their own fish stocks by over-exploitation โ so they started stealing more than $300m worth of tuna, shrimp, and lobster every year from Somalia. ๐ ๐
And this is the context in which the "Pirates" emerged. Somalian fishermen took speedboats to try to dissuade the dumpers and trawlers, or at least levy a "tax" on them. They called themselves the Volunteer Coastguard of Somalia โ and 70% of Somalis not only agreed but strongly supported the piracy as a form of national defense. ๐ก๏ธ ๐ซ
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So they next time someone cries about "Somalis stole from us" know that it's either Propaganda, retribution or both, but not enough of the latter.
๐๏ธ Question everything that hiStOrY tells you ๐๏ธ
#HistoricRefuge #Somalia #AfricansUnite #EatTheRich #DeathToImperialsm #DeathToEmpire #ColonialRefuge
