UN envoy proposes...

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A U.N. envoy proposed on Tuesday that special courts be set up in the Somali enclaves of Somaliland and Puntland, and in Tanzania, to try captured Somali pirates who are costing billions to world shipping.

The pirates have turned the busy shipping lanes off the coast of the lawless Horn of Africa nation of Somalia into the some of the most dangerous waters on earth.

Many are captured by international warships attempting to combat the scourge but some are then released because no place can be found to prosecute them.

With conflict-torn Somalia lacking the legal infrastructure to try pirates, Kenya and the Seychelles have prosecuted dozens handed over by foreign navies. But both have said they would have difficulties coping with the numbers if all the seized pirates were given to them.

In a report to the Security Council, Jack Lang, special adviser to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Somali piracy, recommended specialized courts be set up within eight months in Somaliland and Puntland, and at Arusha in Tanzania. He put the cost of the project at less than $25 million over three years.

The breakaway enclave of Somaliland and semi-autonomous Puntland, itself a center of piracy, are both seen as relatively stable compared with Somalia proper.

Arusha is currently the site of a U.N.-backed tribunal that tries suspects from Rwanda's 1994 genocide. Lang, a former French culture minister, proposed that the same Tanzanian facilities be used to try suspected Somali pirates.

Lang also recommended that two special prisons be built, one in Somaliland and one in Puntland, with capacity to hold 500 prisoners each, with a third prison to be built in Puntland soon afterwards.

Any such project will have to be approved by the Security Council, which took no immediate decision after listening to an oral presentation by Lang at a meeting on Tuesday.

(Reporting by Patrick Worsnip; Editing by Jackie Frank)

http://af.reuters.com/article/somaliaNe ... 1920110125

I have proposed that same idea put forth by Mr Lang LAST FRIGGIN YEAR , wallahi !!

[SahanGalbeed]

Pirate-ka majeerten e badweynta cidamada Kuuriya ku soo qabtan , ma waxa loo qaatay inu hawaday-ga mandheera ku raamsado mise hilib ey lagu siiyo xabsi magaalada Seoul agagaarkeeda ku yaal ? Bal ka warama ?

[udun]

They are not pirates. They are Somali Coast Guard (SCG).

Somali SCG and Al-Shabaab are the only Somalis showing balls to outside forces!