How Can Pirates Exist in the 21st Century? | History of Somali Pirates
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One of the more interesting historical phenomena to be revived in the early 2000s is certainly the resurgence of piracy off the coast of Somalia. For over a decade spiking in 2010, pirates from Somalia terrorised the shipping lanes of the Indian Ocean, boarding cargo ships, personal yachts and fishing trawlers, bringing the vessels back to the coast and holding their occupants hostage before demanding a payment of ransom. But how is this possible in the modern world? In this video we'll explore the twentieth century history of Somalia, the military dictatorship, civil wars and breakdown of society making piracy a viable profession for thousands of young men.#
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You should do a video on Cubans fighting in foreign wars, it seems they pop up in every African conflict
You are A man of culture my good sir
It was mainly Angola and Ethiopia not a whole lot elsewhere
@@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 Guinea under Ahmed Sekou Touré, Mali under Modibo Keita, Congo to help the Lumumbists, Angola of course, Burkina Faso under Sankara, Mozambique under Machel.....good god these guys were everywhere. Thank you Fidel
@@TheAtozed I was more talking about where they had a successful direct impact for example Fidel sent che off to Bolivia to start a revolution but it never succeeded so I wouldn’t count it as Cuban government direct interventionism
@@TheAtozed and also in Mozambique and Madagascar they were more of a support to the soviet mission than a leading force. Sort of like how Britain plays a supporter role to American military interventions but doesn’t directly lead attacks like it did during the empire
Pirates: "Give us one million dollars, or we will give the hostages to Al-Shabaab"
Al-Shabaab: "That's right brother!"
Pirates: "Don't talk to me weirdo."
LOL this is so accurate
Faxxx 😂😂🤞🏿
@@MicaiahBaron i guess he didn't think before he type lol
Honestly 😂😂
The pirates and al shabaab had no connection whatsoever and they dont even operate in the same areas
Hilbert: How can pirates exist in the 21st century?
Some Dutch guy in the 1680s: How can pirates exist in the 17th century?
does not really applie, because piracy was a favored method of waging war during the early modern period, it was cheap and proffitable, a letter of mark made it legal and all goods had to be put in ledgers (not that they would have always done so)
there were actually taxes on it, so it also brought in a lot of money and the early days of the VOC were primarily characterised by income from privateering.
piracy is now seen as the oldest international crime, because by default a pirate without a letter of mark was an international outlaw and thus an enemy of every state
@@istoppedcaring6209 Back then "approved piracy" was really just mercenaries operating openly under a country's flag and authority. Very cost effective way to operate IMHO. It also kept the wannabe pirates busy doing something more "constructive". :)
@@istoppedcaring6209 lol "letter of mark".
Ikr lol
These are Somali fisherman who bandied together went out and defended their waters from illegal fish trawlers and europeans dumping toxic chemical waste. You people are too full of hatred and racism to make sense of anything.
This might be one of the most well researched videos on Somalia I've seen on CZcams. Shoutout to all my fellow Somalis :)
Do you live in the basically independent Somali-land or the southern part?
@@sergeantmajorgross4461 MANCHUKO
@@Sovietube MANCHUKUOUOUOUO
new sealand
Agree
I don’t support what these pirates have done, but if it weren’t their actions looting and dumping of wastes would have gone unnoticed.
*have done
@@LunaBari 😊
Oh no, one more mass dumping site
@ThinkBefore YouType *were
@Koolkid Based, fake and gay
Ironic that there is an EU naval presence in the area as it was illegal fishing by Spanish trawlers that started all of this, and the EU gave them tacit support by rejecting complaints from the then Somali authorities.
"Spanish trawlers that started all of this.." And I guess you have a ton of evidences about your allegations against Spanish trawlers, Don't you? Or is your comment just one more bit of the old game "Put the blame on Spain"??
@@Karthagast no there is overwhelming evidence that shows what Spanish trawlers have done in Somalia seas, perhaps you should do some research on you’re own
These are Somali fisherman who bandied together went out and defended their waters from illegal fish trawlers and europeans dumping toxic chemical waste. You people are too full of hatred and racism to make sense of anything.
@@Karthagast You have to either be Young enough to not have payed attention to the news at the time or simply stupid not to know about the Spanish trawlers that sweeped through those waters back in the day.
@ThinkBefore YouType Yes join the hate America hype train.
One thing that made me laugh out loud, the idea of the large Fishing concerns learning a lesson and coming to respect small local fishermen! Hilarious.... As a Marine Biologist who has spent decades tracking and monitoring fishing activities and the affect of said activities, I can safely say that those people will never learn to respect anything. The only thing they care about is the dollar in their pocket, the fact that they are fishing themselves out of a career at a horrifyingly fast rate is not something they will concern themselves with over much.
At least till the stocks collapse, then of course they will whinge and whine at the Biologists who have been telling the idiots for literally decades that yes, in fact wild populations of fish CAN indeed be overfished, and no, there is no magic cure for their own greed and stupidity....
Ok, but who is the Somali Blackbeard and how do I join his crew?
You know Blackbeard one had a very short time of glory and then was killed. Better look up the Chinese pirate queen who lived to enjoy her riches. ;)
hmm perhaps
Somali Blackbeard is Eric Cartman.
@@BountyFlamor should I be worried that you know
Pirates are gay
You missed the opportunity to point out that piracy on the somali coast is at a decline and east asia now has the most piracy going on
Edit: nevermind you did address it but piracy in Asia would definitely be another interesting topic since it's way less concentrated and therefore harder to combat
And these pirates are speaking mandarin chinese and I am learning it atm, so... Arr!
@@EHonda-ds6ve 儿
Where exactly in East Asia?
@@miliba South China Sea
And that's in addition to the shitfest Chinese navy and organised fishing and coral mining fleets are causing. I'm saying let's start a crew, get some funding from Greenpeace and make piracy great again
This is a great explanation of the Somali piracy. Including its history, and the reason it started. Thank you for this in depth discussion.
When Somalis see an injustice they say:
'dhiiga kuma dhaqaaqo?' which translates into 'does your blood not move?'
You nailed it.
You should do a video on Hayreddin Barbarossa. A truly fascinating saga.
Who?
A time when the Ottoman navy was good
To be fair he's more of a military naval captain that a "pirate"
@@itsblitz4437 Arguably the most famous pirate that ever lived (well him or John Ward). He was also known as Captain Red Beard.
Jack Sparrow from the movie Pirates of The Caribbean is loosely based on John Ward and Barbarossa is based on the main villain.
As a Berber from Morocco, i would love for him to make a video on probably the most famous Berber ever!
The establishment of local popular militias with noble ideals to address foreign oppression often seems to end up with them devolving into organised crime organisations. eg. The Sicilian Mafia, the IRA, etc.
The crips and Latin kings started like that. La Costa Nostra aswell.
the road to hell is paved with good intentions meaning
Oh right, who would've thought that individuals given a lot of power and not a lot of supervision will abuse this power
Turns out the kind of people ready to commit acts of violence often against civilians in the name of ideology are the kind of people who will do the same for their own benefit...
How many countries are looting the fish please do tel us.
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WHAT 🤬
Mostly its just China.
iran
@@redswift31 Korean ships were also found along with european ships. also nuclear waste was also dumped from Europe on the shores.
I love how you have a completely neutral view. Keep it up!
"...lets say they were proficient enough to fire them" *the shade of those trees intensifies*
well this was a slight turn in video topic Hilbert!
i think i like everything that's ever come out of your mind and body. everything.
great topic thanks
I love that they referenced Khat/ qat (the leafy drug referenced at the end of the clip) this plant has so much more influence over the lower Arabic peninsula than any other herb. To simplify and for those that don't know, Khat is one of the only narcotics used in this region, and actually is the precursor to amphetamines eg it is a stimulant like speed or cocaine
So glad to know people realize what the somalis are doing that they are simply defending the land
Looks like a replay of 'East-India company' like trading corporations in 18th century England, Netherlands etc. Less glamorous but functionally same. Shareholders get money, business does anything for money.
These are Somali fisherman who bandied together went out and defended their waters from illegal fish trawlers and europeans dumping toxic chemical waste. You people are too full of hatred and racism to make sense of anything.
@@Abraham_Tsfaye there can be bad people on both sides, but stealing from similar countries doesn’t make it right and makes Somalia seem worse internationally
@@pringleaddict5827 how can they be seen as worse? babies are literally being born with birth defects because of the chemicals dumped into the water. Trawling destroys the habitats of fish by dragging heavy nets on the sea floor. Whatever these trawlers don't catch leave the area due to their being no suitable habitat. What ever fish stay, become contaminated with god knows what. Now imagine you are a fisherman. You see these foreign ships destroying the seabed, and dumping chemicals into the water. Your daughter has just been born with serious defects and will need to be taken care of for the rest of her life. In addition what little fish stay in the area are contaminated and you and the rest of your village have all been feeling ill. What do you think people would do in this situation? Who is the worse party? Some mega corps losing less than 5% of their revenue or people whos very *LIVES* have been destroyed? I see no both sides here.
Your channel is quality !
Very honest into depth video coming from a Somali thanks
Nice video bro
Thanks for being unbiased. Awesome video btw.
awesome video
The rise of Somali Pirates is very similar to that of the Sicilian Mafia. Both started out as a vigilante group in a lawless land protecting the local markets. They eventually realized that no one could truly stop them, so they become corrupt and steal for those they once protected.
with this video, you got my Like and subscription
The connection to climate is really interesting. It shows that in some situations there is no such thing as an externality.
1:37 that guys neck
would love to see the video about belgium and the netherlands and how they dealt with piracy
Great video.
These are Somali fisherman who bandied together went out and defended their waters from illegal fish trawlers and europeans dumping toxic chemical waste. You people are too full of hatred and racism to make sense of anything.
@@Abraham_Tsfaye stop spamming he isn’t even talking about the pirates
Can’t wait to see the video about the Dutch :)
Imagine the pirates go down to Mombasa or dar es salam to raid the ports probably to well armed of places but that would have a huge ripple effect across the Indian Ocean
Well done, appreciate the non bias View of Somalia ✌🏽🙏🏾
Great video. Very informative! 👌🏾
Definitely interesting. Sequel about the Dutch and Belgian anti pirate stuff please!
The three types of people that make the pirates you described: Muscle, Leaders and Brains.
In pirate world Nerd and Jock are in the same team 🤣😄
Al shabab and these Somali pirates are making the big bucks I heard there’s a $10,000 bonus for being the first to board
Investe in nice somali stockmarket. Fast save good money and it is good for nature! Perfect!
I wanna be a pirate.
@@ryeguy7941 same here I’ve almost completed pirate academy in Mogadishu.
Where can I invest in the pirate stocks??
Probably in the "City of London".
@@Karthagast what do you mean?.
@@kayo5011 I mean that district of London, known as "The City of London", is a special place devoted to every kind of dark bussiness and shadow finances. I bet it is the best place on Earth to find a way for piracy invesment, for real.
These are Somali fisherman who bandied together went out and defended their waters from illegal fish trawlers and europeans dumping toxic chemical waste. You people are too full of hatred and racism to make sense of anything.
@@Abraham_Tsfaye who tf is hating???
I thought that was a really well researched and presented video. Well done, thoroughly enjoyed it. You should do a vid on how the Russians dealt with the Somali pirates, those spetnaz guys weren’t mucking about!
Whenever I hear Somali pirates I think of the pirates of the Caribbean theme playing while there is just a boat with a machine gun on it chasing after other pirates
Pirates of the Horn of Africa.
short answer: there's never not been piracy.
as a dutch person i do hope you make the video about the dutch and belgium navy
Please do make a video you are mentioning!
Thanks
Any chance of getting a few vids on the Space Race?
The Dutch and pirates? I’d love to know how your favorite orange meme ended the second golden age of piracy.
Interesting
Very well researched video, thank you for not being biased.
Biased? It's pirates that steals stuff from boats, there is not much of an opinion to be had here.
@@MichaelDavis-mk4me but because they need it, these people live in a failed state
@@morisco56 Has nothing to do with bias, everybody knows that they are super poor.
@Ifat H I guess we should also blame the Vienna Academy for WW2, because if they had accepted, he probably wouldn't have enlisted in the army, thus not join a paramilitary group, then taking power and then started WW2. Great logic.
@@MichaelDavis-mk4me What a stupid analogy. So one can rob your house and poison your family but your the criminal for reacting. Get real. He was right, had they not done what they did (true large scale piracy) the fisherman wouldve never turned into pirates. Simple.
I'd love to hear about the Dutch and Belgium's pirate stories
The pirate republic lives on, in Somalia apparently
Wait so....how do you buy Somali pirate stonks? Asking for a friend.
5:00 this is wrong. The SNM simply fought to oust Siad Barre and form a new government with the southern based USC. They didn’t pursue a separatists agenda until the USC started infighting (as you mentioned with aidid and mahdi). Even then the first President Abdirahman Tuur was well known for wanting unity between the south and north and Second president Egaal who ousted Tuur didn’t really view Somaliland as a permanent thing which got him lots of accusations of being Pro Unity instead of being pro Somaliland. Also an important thing you left out was the clan system which plays an important part of Somali history.
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Elmore Leonard's novel, Djibouti, deals with this subject and is up to his usual standard of writing.
Just a note: to my knowledge the somalis in the ogaden were not "citizens" but were, well, ethnic somali. Somalia (atleast claim that they) wanted to unite somalian somalis with those in ethiopia in the same nation.
Hi I'm fellow somali who happens to be ogadeen which is tribe that are ethnically somalian so that's why the region is called ogadeen
@@azizadam3819 The region name is Somali Galbeed.
Any ethnic Somalis who lives in the nfd (occupied Kenyan region) or Ogadenia (occupied Ethiopian region) can go to Somalia and automatically become a Somali citizen
@@kappa3399 which doesnt make them literal citizens of somalia.
you really have to fuck up bad to have a really hard time getting citizenship in somalia if your from galbeed or kenya. my dad is from a small town not far from jigjiga and he has somali citizenship lmao.
The yeet at 0:11 killed me
Make video about Barbary Pirates
I am one of those Somali diaspora helping the pirates unintentionally with translations lol by the way I wanted to give you props on this good and fair reporting
Really how😂
Thank you for researching my country correctly 🙏
Do a video about Singapore
I think we're all interested in the follow-up on the Belgian/Dutch pirate busting
Apologies Hilbert, they sure pay you well but I've got too much self respect to sit trough the same advertisement on every channel repeating the exact same script a hundred times over
2:00 to skip the Magellan TV ad
Great work as always
If youre tired of the sponsors try looking for Sponsor Block.
@Al Barbarī Check it out, you can mark when you skip a sponsor, if it's not already done by someone else
They are just protecting their seas I respect them
Hilbert on the content-train! Thank you, good sir :)
This is so cool I want to be a pirate!
I love these vids, please do Central America
Nice to know Maxi has good taste in CZcams content
@@Brams2777 yes
Waiting for the mentioned video of Belgian efforts ...
Please do a bit about the Indian role in the whole thing and how Indians were affected
I can defiantly get behind a "fuck with my fish and Ill fuck around and become a pirate" mentality.
I would like to see a video about why the Dutch decided to become a monarchy after the napoleonic wars instead of going back to being a republic
Wooow you are 100% right I'm from somalia 🇸🇴
Hello man will you talk about the flags of Chile (the country, not the spicy one)
From memory, the dictator Siad Barre's name is pronounced: See-yad Barr-ay.
OK, that's how the BBC pronounced it...
Close enough. In Somali we spell it as Siyaad Barre (see-yad Barr-eh)
I think alot of us seen pirates as the Somali ones that jacked Tom Hanks with the line "I am the captain now"
By having stealth tactics and strategies
Thank you pirates for saving fishers and fish from dangerius foreign overfishing
"Oh... Yes... That's totally why we do it... You know, protect the people and fish."
Except it's too late because they fished these waters dead already. And when our bois from Philippines and Vietnam scream for help the world doesn't give a shit cuz muh china
@@MichaelDavis-mk4me Well that is how and why it started but it eventually became just another criminal operation to make easy money for thugs and militia men
@@lordgemini2376 Yeah, but saying today's pirates protect fish is like saying the Hell's Angels are riding a bike freely.
@@MichaelDavis-mk4me There are no more pirates. They died out a few years ago.
Honestly, if they hadn't made the jump to actual piracy, I'd 100% be on their side. If I was a Somali fisherman and saw foreign ships literally shit on my sovereign waters, picking them clean illegally and leaving me nothing to eat, I'd be pretty pissed too. If all they did was chase the ships off their waters, I'd have respect for them.
I mean they still need money don’t they? There’s no case of morality or justice here, they’re starving literally.
I’m Somali and let me tell u local angry fishermen were shot at for trying to stop them.
What do u expect we drove them out and made them scared to return mission accomplished
@@apotato6278 Are you an imbecile? These “oil tankers” aren’t just peacefully strolling through you do realise. Most of these targets were initially Indian, Iranian and Chinese vessels that were illegally stealing fish competing with the locals who struggled to compete with them.
That's all well and good, but they also murdered innocent people who never did anything to somalia for profit.
@@Tom_Cruise_Missile Try reading the rest of my comment and then reply again.
Another inspiring tutorial, so many interesting careers and so little time...
I loved the South Park episode about Somalia Pirates because although it makes fun of the Somalia Pirates it also shows the truth that being a Pirate in Somalia doesn't help your local community all that much
Today I found out Somali pirates are actually based
Has anyone seen the South Park episode about the Somali pirates?
I haven't, that's a real episode? I wanna see it! What episode is it?
@@Nor-Gar Fatbeard
@@MrGiygas1 thanks!
Pirate stock exchange is based.
Has anyone here seen Seaspiracy? They actually adress this exact topic in that film. It really made me think...
Ships have started hiring paramilitary private contractors to defend their ships from pirates, and for some reason people are mad that people are protecting themselves from pirates,,, it’s interesting. Though the armed ships Basicly never get pirated, so it seems to be working.
Did he ever make the Belgian/Dutch method of dealing with somali pirates like he mentioned?
Broke: Somali pirates.
Woke: Mexican drug cartel pirates.
Cringe
@albert einstien Are you talking about my comment or some dude's comment, if my comment, then thank you, if not, then you suck.
Neither is something to be proud about
@@farahhersi9380 Man, it's a joke.
Piracy in Indonesia along the Straits of Malacca had also been an issue previous to Somalia so the expression 'the origin of the pirate phenomenon' (9:54) misses the greater point that piracy has been with us to a greater or lesser extent since earlier times. That being said, great work overall. An interesting foray into a complex subject, keep it up!
No wilhelmus :) I think you had an opportunity with the Dutch marines but it might be more suited with the possible next video. Which beside the meme would be very interesting to see!
Look at me....I am the History CZcamsr now
Please continue to do these videos on Africa, they are fantastic
Italy had a few too many potatoes at 6:24
Plunder of Somali waters by foreign fishing vessels has lead to this unfortunate situation.
Nice last name my guy 😁👍
@Niek Vels as somali I can tell much of the blames goes on Somalis but when your government is weak and fragile other powers take advantage of you that is what humans do but your right the warlord and foreign weapons smugglers are to blame for all the violence in Somalia
@Niek Vels your the only one to mention westerners.
@@josh6028 if only people in the middle east would realise that its also their own fault the westerners were just lucky
@Niek Vels Not Western lol, they're mostly from the Middle East or East Asia, get outta here with that victim complex
Such a sad tale
17:47 Japan Is very Mad....
7:27 also navy
As a Somali, this is a very informative video - well done! The only gripe I had with this video was how you pronounced the dictator Siad Barre as "Sayeed Bar". It's supposed to be pronounced as "Siyad Ba-re". 😀
indo-european speakers can't pronounce it, unless they speak some afro-asiatic.
@@maahir3039 siyaad should be easy to pronounce si like the letter C and then yaad rhyming with dad
@@thestealth2448
you'll think that, but it doesn't word work I tried with them but 1/10 can say it every time correctly.
@Greater Somalia
There's no good dictator, there's only one, just cause he didn't starve his people doesn't make him good.
he didn't build institutions and destroyed the nation's economy by his communist ideology, and when his people criticized him and asked for change he imprisoned them, tortured them and killed them.
ps
you judge someone's leadership by their legacy.
@Greater Somalia this is an over exaggeration. Somalia was stable but that's about it. The majority were in poverty except the upper class in Mogadishu. And lots of progress during his time wasn't even by him but his predecessor but he gets credit for it. Ultimately if he transferred power peacefully Somalia wouldn't be in the state it is today, rebels wouldn't start popping up and al Shabaab would never happen. Instead he was selfish and chose to persecute his critics and benefit his closest kin which only alienated more Somalis.
Proud Somali here 🇸🇴🇸🇴🏴☠️🏴☠️🇸🇴🇸🇴🤠
Do you know any pirates?
@@jorgeh.r9879 No
@@jorgeh.r9879 abaha wS
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Can you do a video about the Spanish Inquisition or the black legend?
Yea, nobody will expect the spanish inquisition.
With all this talk about the pirates, now I'm curious about the civil war between the two factions vying for power. Why one hasn't won over the other.
There were 4 main factions, which in short order turned on each other and became dozens of sub-factions who all hate each other. Not so simple like the Union vs Confederacy, unfortunately. Sadly, they all lost in the end 😩
In the end an Islamic theocratic faction won but Ethiopia intervened and kicked them out making another power vacuum and the Islamic faction became a terrorist group alshabab now there is a government but alshabab still hold much control in the south
Basically people sometime in the early 2000 got tired of the secular conflicts and just wanted some peace and stability through Islamic governance. When the then more tolerant Islamic government actually pretty much won the war and ended the large scale conflicts, foreign powers like Ethiopia invaded to ensure chaos in Somalia for their own benefit. Basically because they didn’t want a new stable Islamic government as their neighbours, cause they already had issues with the strong secular Somali state in the 1970s.