M/V Orna. Image via EUNAVFOR
Somali pirates have killed a crew member of the hijacked M/V Orna as part of a tactic to speed up ransom payment.
The Panama-flagged bulk carrier was hijacked on December 10, 2010 a few hundred miles off the coast of Seychelles. The 27,915 dwt Orna is owned by a company in the United Arab Emirates.
Insiders at Somalia Report have statedthat the hostage killed was a Syrian and it is believed that one other was also wounded. Somalia Report has identified the owner of the Orna as Kassab Intershipping-Swedish Management.
“The killing was a message to the owners of the ship who paid no heed to our ransom demands,” a pirate negotiator told the AP by phone. ”More killings will follow if they continue to lie to us — we have lost patience with them. Two years is enough.”
The incident is believed to be the first time Somali pirates have killed a hostage as a tactic to speed up ransom payments.
A recent study revealed that in 2011 35 hostages died while in captivity however none of those were directly linked to ransom negotiations. According to the report 8 were killed by pirates during an initial attack or after being taken captive; 8 died from disease or malnutrition while being held; and 19 died in crossfire while being used as human shields and during hostage rescue attempts. Another 3 hostages died after release as a result of abuse they had suffered while in captivity.
Never mind the niceities just grab 'em and hang 'em summarily or grab the next bunch that try it and hang them!—start protecting mariners not pirate rights!
I've seen footage of the russian navy using the Somalis as live target practice. Huge money floats past a well armed, well organized and well ballsy bunch of folks with little other honest means of making a living? Seems to me if we were In the same situation, we might just hop in a rickety old punt and fire a rocket up some rich honky's smokestack too
They killed one of the crew —not the money people
And as long as they keep returning captured pirates this will carry on…
Maritime forces must meet force with force and send a clear message.
And as long as they keep returning captured pirates this will carry on…
Maritime forces must meet force with force and send a clear message.
And as long as they keep returning captured pirates this will carry on…
Maritime forces must meet force with force and send a clear message.
What are they waiting for now? It is time to stop pyrates.Remeber seamens are human beings not beasts.Pyrates now are thinking to have the knife by the handle against all the world. We cannot permit all this, if we suppose to be civilians!
@@@@@@@@Martin Craig
You sould like a real ass hole. Maybe we should put your Mother on a hostage ship.
Time to go on Search and Destroy Missions!
Pirates are a cancer of the society.It is better take out soon and have the seas free.