The Unwelcome Return of the Somali Pirates
The seas are becoming increasingly more dangerous in our days.
You get the Houthis shooting missiles at cargo ships in the Red Sea. Ukraine and Russia’s warring military vessels in heavily mined Black Sea. Endless skirmishes between China and Philippines in the South China Sea – to name but a few of the trouble spots.
So the resurgence of the threat by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean is most unwelcome news.
Somali pirates in the Bulgarian ship Ruen.
It’s been less than a week that I wrote here in TGP about how Indian navy vessel INS Kolkata came to the rescue of the Bulgarian ship MV Ruen, hijacked by pirates back on December 14,
