dates back to October 27 the latest kidnapping of the Somali pirates, against an English yacht. An endless list, which concerns us, the cases of kidnappings of Italians have been many, beginning from the famous Boucanier. Pirates, yes certainly. But some of these groups claim for themselves the title of national heroes. To learn more we have to go back to March 20, 1994, when he was killed the journalist Ilaria Alpi Rai in Mogadishu. Despite what the parliamentary committee of inquiry established in Italy, other independent surveys have shown that the Alps had discovered the European traffic of radioactive waste to Somalia.
What, then, it sounded like a case investigation minority, seems to be confirmed by our recent experience, made of eco-mafias that pollute the planet, from Africa to Calabria. In 2004, corroborating the hypothesis of the Alps A tsunami guts Somali beaches and reveals the radioactive waste. The Ong, the Greens and journalists set to work. The Eurogroup has the Greens in Parliament in Strasbourg copies of contracts signed by the Italian-Swiss and the Italian Archair Partners Progress. In those documents show how corrupt the government hired local Somali, accompanied by the $ 80 million, to allow the illegal spillage of 10 million tons of toxic waste in Europe.
The Pandora's box was uncovered, in 2008, Al Jazeera published the findings of UN technical UNEP (United Nations Environment). The expert Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah said publicly that those who in the early nineties, there were only rumors, now there are documented cases UN. "In Somalia, European and Asian companies have also spilled nuclear waste." Nick Nuttal, UNEP, stressed that "European companies are very convenient to get rid of garbage in Somalia, with costs amounting to $ 2.5 per tonne, compared with about one thousand U.S. dollars of the significant legal." Africans on the sea bed can be found mercury, uranium, cadmium, chemical waste, pharmaceutical, hospital, industrial. The savings in waste disposal are likely to make it convenient also the sinking of entire vessels, as revealed by the case of "toxic ships" in Calabria.
In 2005, in fact, the British newspaper The Independent interviewed had Somali pirate Segula Ali's testimony, "We consider bandits. They are bandits who have spilled and caught illegally in our waters. " It is apparent also another element. Since the outbreak of the Civil War onwards, the government fails to secure control of territorial waters. And some European companies coming here to fish illegally in the same sea where leave radioactive waste. The situation is such that, October 10, 2008, the Chicago Tribune published an interview with Professor Peter Lehr concludes that: "It's a sort of informal compensation. The Pirates obtained 100 million dollars a year from kidnappings to the detriment of Europe and Asia. These are siphoning off 300 million dollars in fish from Somalia. "
why pirates are perceived as national heroes who protect the land from the rich soverchierie in defense of local communities and against a national government that tolerates corrupt pirate raids of the "rich world". Last year, in fact, the Associated Press published a report of journalists Mohammed Hassan and Elizabeth Kennedy testified that the consent of the pirates in the community because it is in territory that pirates spend the proceeds of their raids. In 2008, the BBC and the Guardian leave with a relentless series of investigations: how to reveal the pirates are, in fact, in large part, former fishermen impoverished because of poaching of others.
emerging responsibilities of European companies in each country. Seems that the same government, the unrecognized breakaway Somali province of Puntland, to support the pirates to exercise that sovereignty on the coast that is not implementing, for convenience, the government in Mogadishu. What, today, is emerging very clearly is that the "rich North of the world" has used the "South" as a dustbin. European companies, most brilliantly, they have spilled into Africa. Italian ones, as recounted in Saviano's Gomorrah and comes out as the investigations started by the late Captain Christmas De Grazia, even in Italy. But the distance must not be misleading. Another vexed area of \u200b\u200blandfills is the Vietnam: from where the fish Pangasius economic, real recent bestseller by large retailers in Italy. But the accounts, sooner or later, you will pay. Always.
Alessio Postiglione, "Earth", October 29, 2009
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