Modern Day Pirates In Somalia

Pirates were mainly famous for their work in the 60s and 70s, but nowadays there are pirates too. They are mainly found in Somalia but there are some pirates found near the Indian Ocean, as well as the “waters west of Indonesia and Singapore”("10 Shocking Facts About Modern-Day Pirates”). They are also found near the Red Sea sometimes, and are known to steal the same items as pirates back then but they are equipped with more modern tools such as cell phones, to keep in contact with organizers. Piracy is the same as piracy back then, however, today's pirates are more modernized and in contact with each other.
Today, most pirates’ purpose for turning to piracy was for the wealth. The pirates are mainly poor fishermen and they are just pirates for the money. They want to get food, as well as wealth, and their intentions are not to kill others they just want survival, since in Somalia, almost half of the people …show more content…
In the past, when pirates “posed a serious threat to commerce in the Caribbean and Atlantic oceans”, Britain just sent out their Royal Navy to hang them all. Nowadays, there are still dozens of warships from countries all over the world, including Italy, Greece, France, Russia, the United States, and many others. After they catch some pirates, there is still not any specified way to punish them or get rid of them. They cannot send them for a trial in Somalia, since the central government there has not been functioning for several decades. Hanging the pirates is also not a widely accepted punishment anymore, so it is also no longer an option. In fact, pirates that are captured are sometimes sent back to the Somali coast where they came from, and thus basically undoing everything you just did. Other times, when the pirates are caught, they are imprisoned. It is still unclear how exactly we should stop these pirates, but efforts are still being made