{"id":518767,"date":"2010-04-07T00:16:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T04:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=11843"},"modified":"2010-04-07T00:16:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T04:16:19","slug":"more-ideas-on-how-to-battle-pirates-%e2%80%9cblockade%e2%80%9d-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518767","title":{"rendered":"More Ideas on How To Battle Pirates: \u201cBlockade\u201d Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Julian Ku <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another interesting <a  href=\"http:\/\/www1.voanews.com\/english\/news\/africa\/decapua-somalia-anti-piracy-6apr10-90007487.html\">report<\/a> on the ongoing battle against Somalia-based pirates. \u00a0The upshot: some progress is being made, especially with private security forces (including one which uses sound waves to push away approaching pirates). \u00a0But legal limitations continue to limit the effectiveness of both naval and private self-defense.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNo commanding officer of any ship wants a situation where he used force and then is told a week later that he shouldn\u2019t have.\u00a0 That he violated the rules and under international law maybe murder would be applied to that.\u00a0 It\u2019s a dangerous line to cross,\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One former naval officer suggests creating an in-shore &#8220;maritime police&#8221; force.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe proposal is send the warships home.\u00a0 And let\u2019s get an international task force together of maritime police and put them inside Somali territorial waters under U.N. auspices, with a U.N. Security Council resolution giving them authority,\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/opiniojurisfeed\/~4\/B0BYaJBMYaQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Julian Ku Here&#8217;s another interesting report on the ongoing battle against Somalia-based pirates. \u00a0The upshot: some progress is being made, especially with private security forces (including one which uses sound waves to push away approaching pirates). \u00a0But legal limitations continue to limit the effectiveness of both naval and private self-defense. \u201cNo commanding officer of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}