You Are Being Lied To About Pirates by their supporters
Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Mon Apr 20 19:54:32 CDT 2009
Peter Fellows-McCully wrote:
> Am I missing something or isn't it odd that someone who wanted to steal fish
> would first poison the sea? If not, to whom are those radioactive fish being
> sold?
>
> P.
Probably not the same people. From Wikipedia,
The huge waves which battered northern Somalia after the tsunami are
believed to have stirred up tonnes of nuclear and toxic waste that was
illegally dumped in the country by several European firms. The
European Green Party followed up these revelations by presenting
before the press and the European Parliament in Strasbourg copies of
************contracts signed by two European companies -- the Italian
Swiss firm, Achair Partners, and an Italian waste broker, Progresso --
and representatives of the then "President" of Somalia, the faction
leader Ali Mahdi Mohamed, to accept 10 million tonnes of toxic waste
in exchange for $80 million (then about £60 million).**************
According to reports by the United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP), the waste has resulted in far higher than normal cases of
respiratory infections, mouth ulcers and bleeding, abdominal
haemorrhages and unusual skin infections among many inhabitants of the
areas around the northeastern towns of Hobbio and Benadir on the
Indian Ocean coast -- diseases consistent with radiation sickness.
UNEP continues that the current situation along the Somali coastline
poses a very serious environmental hazard not only in Somalia but also
in the eastern Africa sub-region.[66]
whereas the fisherfolk could be poachers from any jurisdiction.
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