Bartamaha (Suol):- South Korea is negotiating the delivery of captured Somali pirates for the release of the freighter “Samho Jewelry” to a third country, but has met with reluctance, reported a source in the South Korean Foreign Ministry told Efe. ”We are negotiating with third countries to accept the pirates captured alive, but there are difficulties, especially in the case of money, because the costs are high,” said a Foreign Ministry spokesman.
South Korean special forces on Friday freed the 21 crew of the cargo of 11 thousand 500 tons of Samho Jewelry after six days in captivity in the Arabian Sea, with the result of eight pirates killed and five captured alive on the boat.
Neighboring countries like Kenya, Yemen and Oman could prosecute the Somali pirates, but South Korea has no agreement with those nations to address the issue of captured pirates. The processes Somali pirates have flooded some poor countries like Kenya, which in 2010 refused to accept more cases as not received the aid promised by the international community to make this work.
Now the “Samho Jewelry” is heading to port to begin the return of the crew (eight South Koreans, eleven Burmese and two Indonesians) to their homes, which is expected very soon as this Saturday, according to newspaper Joongang Ilbo today.
The five pirates are standing in a South Korean destroyer “Young Choi”, escorting the “Samho Jewelry” in his return to earth, while the freighter captain is already in Oman to be treated for a gunshot wound.
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Source:- Coffee Today
