Quote Originally Posted by M-A Lagrange View Post
I personnaly believe that only a strong and total economical blockus over somalia would work. They tend to reject any decision, even from their own politicians. So why don't we drop the support to so called somali government and parliament, have an agressive sea blocus (no ship in or out the miles out of the coast), no fly zone, full land border closing (monitored by international forces), no direct aid, only droping (Since the time, they have competent people for everything there, including health) and let them be as they want it?
So we impose a complete economic blockade on 10 million Somalis in order to address the problem created by c1,000 active pirates (0.01% of the local population)? We do so even at the cost of aggravating Somalia's food insecurity and economic situation, with possibly tens of thousands preventable deaths as a result?

Collective punishment of civilian populations and blockades of the necessities of life have both been war crimes since WWII. Frankly, piracy seems a far cheaper cost to pay.