The Russian Navy deals with Somalian Pirates

Freightdawg · Jun 17, 2011

RUSSIAN NAVY CAPTURES SOMALI PIRATES

How about that - The Russians captured the Pirates, tied them up, put them on the boats, then set them all on fire - puff no more Pirates!

NO POLITICAL CORRECTNESS BS HERE!

This video shows Russian Navy commandos on a Somalian pirate ship shortly after the pirates had captured a Russian oil tanker. The Euro Union navy that patrols these waters would not interfere because they feared there could be casualties.
All explanations are in Russian with a single exception of when a wounded pirate says something in English and the Russian soldier says "This is not a fishing boat". All conversations between the commandos are in Russian. If you don't understand Russian, the pictures speak for themselves.

The soldiers freed their compatriots and the tanker. The Russian Navy Commandos moved the pirates back to their own (pirate) ship, searched the pirate ship for weapons and explosives and then they left the ship and exploded it with all remaining pirates hand-cuffed to it.
The commandos sank the pirate ship along with the pirates and without any court proceedings, lawyers etc. That is, they used the anti-piracy laws of the 18th and 19th centuries where the captain of the rescuing ship has the right to decide what to do with the pirates. Usually, they were hung.

I would think from now on, Russian ships will not be targets for Somali pirates.

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OntarioVanMan · Jun 17, 2011

yep....word will spread...don't mess with Russian ships....more should do that...

greg334 · Jun 17, 2011

I wonder how many international organizations will complain and how long will it take for NATO and the EU to protest about the treatment of these people?

No matter how you look at it, we should never brought any of them back here to be tried, we show the world how we can't handle something simple like this. Russians did the right thing.

Tennesseahawk · Jun 17, 2011

OntarioVanMan said:
yep....word will spread...don't mess with Russian ships....more should do that...

Funny... Muslim terrorists got that message a long time ago. Wonder why?

paullud · Jun 17, 2011

Turtle should take the picture from that site and use it as an avatar.

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Pilgrim · Jun 17, 2011

If you read the comments, toward the bottom of the first page (at 140 comments) someone claiming to be Russian said they blew up the pirate vessel but left the pirates at sea on an inflatable raft with no means of propulsion, no food or water. Also, lots of comments about this being a hoax but it would be an expensive and elaborate hoax. Would be nice to have a translation of the audio. At any rate, this is how pirates should be dealt with - period. If the tanker companies have to hire security outfits like Blackwater, it's money well spent.

skyraider · Jun 18, 2011

U will have to give the pirates credit on one thing, they are running in the ocean in what I call an outboard motorized boat of questionable seaworthiness worth little or nothing in value.

The sophisticated Navies of this world can't stop them with a Naval ship worth millions of dollars and technology to boot. I'm for stopping these pirates, but gorilla warfare on the high seas is also hard to stop, its a huge ocean.

Turtle · Jun 18, 2011

Somali pirates captured and released by Russian navy 'have died' - Telegraph

Moot · Jun 18, 2011

greg334 said:
I wonder how many international organizations will complain and how long will it take for NATO and the EU to protest about the treatment of these people

"It would have been more humane to have hung them up from the yardarm," a rights activist, whose name was not given, told the Kommersant daily at the weekend.

skyraider · Jun 19, 2011

Unless things have changed in the last 40 years, there are 2 laws at sea,,,The Captains orders stand and u do what the
Captain says to do, no ands,ifs or buts, well it use to be that way , dont know for sure anymore.

Politics gets in the way now days. I would hope there is still some real Navy Captains running our ships. IMHO

AMonger · Jun 19, 2011

skyraider said:
Unless things have changed in the last 40 years, there are 2 laws at sea,,,The Captains orders stand and u do what the
Captain says to do, no ands,ifs or buts, well it use to be that way , dont know for sure anymore.

Politics gets in the way now days. I would hope there is still some real Navy Captains running our ships. IMHO

Unfortunately, government control freaks have figured out that there is freedom at sea, that somewhere, the possibility exists that someone can go there and not be told what to do all the time. So to remedy that, they've come up worth The Law of the Sea Treaty, designed to bring the open seas under international law.

There will soon be no place on earth one can go to be free. Not that I'd recognize its legitimacy, of course, but guys with bigger guns usually get their way.

Freightdawg · Jun 19, 2011

The source said that radio signals from the boat stopped just one hour after it had been set free by the Russian navy. No details were given over the manner in which they could have lost their lives.

Well, if the video is real, I may have an idea of how they lost their lives!