The MV FAINA Piracy Crisis Chronicle – VII

By: Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis

[ Posted On: 2008-12-07 ]

As the ongoing piracy crisis off the Somali coast at the Horn of Africa region risks triggering the world’s first major military enterprise after Iraq, in six previous articles of this series, I provided with a recapitulative record of the insightful press releases of the leading NGO Ecoterra; more specifically, I republished Press Release updates no 43 to 62. In the present article, I republish Ecoterra Press Release updates no 63 and 64.

63rd Update 2008-11-26 22:36:58 UTC

Ecoterra Intl. - Stay Calm & Solve it Peaceful & Fast !

Ecoterra International – Update & Media Release on the stand-off concerning the Ukrainian weapons-ship hi-jacked by Somali pirates.

We also can make sea-piracy in Somalia an issue of the past - with empathy and strength and through coastal and marine development as well as protection!

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Day 63 - 1496 hours into the FAINA Crisis - Update Summary

Efforts for a peaceful release continued, but the now two months long stand-off concerning Ukrainian MV FAINA is still not yet solved, though intensive negotiations have continued and both sides are striving to finalize the modalities of the safe release of crew and vessel.

Local reports that a solution has been reached could unfortunately not be confirmed.

Ecoterra Intl. renewed it's call to solve the FAINA and the SIRIUS STAR cases with first priority and peaceful in order to avert human and environmental disasters at the Somali coast. Anybody encouraging hot-headed and concerning such difficult situations inexperienced and untrained gunmen to try an attempt of a military solution must be held responsible for the surely resulting disaster.

News from other abducted ships ----------

Thailand has sought an official clarification from the Indian Navy on its rules of engagement and the background in sinking an alleged pirate ship last week off the coast of Somalia after evidence has emerged that the ship was a Thai fishing vessel, which itself had been sea-jacked, officials said Wednesday. 'We have asked the Indian authorities to help us verify the ownership of the vessel and then clarify their rules of engagement,' said Thai Foreign Ministry spokesman Tharit Charungvat. Another maritime organization confirmed Wednesday that the vessel sunk by the Indian navy in the Gulf of Aden was a Thai fishing trawler and not a Somali pirate vessel as was first announced by the Indian navy, which first had received praise from certain quarters for taking on the Somali pirates. But Noel Choong, head of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) piracy reporting centre, said the vessel it attacked was a Thai-operated fishing boat which had been seized by Somali pirates off Yemen on November 18. "We can confirm that the incident has taken place. One Thai crew member died during the attack by the Indian navy, on the same day the vessel was hijacked by Somali pirates", he told AFP.

Choong said that one Cambodian crewman was rescued by passing fishermen four days later, but 14 other crew on the Kiribati-registered vessel are still missing. India's navy defended its actions, saying Wednesday that the vessel its stealth frigate fired on had been hostile. "The Indian navy ship asked them to stop for investigation on repeated calls. The vessel responded by saying it would blow up the Indian ship", navy spokesman Commander Nirad Sinha told AFP in New Delhi. "Pirates were seen roaming on the deck with rocket-propelled grenade launchers", he said, adding that the Indian navy only opened fire after being fired upon. Choong said that photographs of the Thai vessel had been sent out to the coalition naval forces and other agencies when it was hijacked as "the fishing boat was actually an ideal mother vessel for the pirates". "The Indian navy may have not received this information as they are not part of the coalition forces and we have no direct link with them", he said. The vessels owner said a British warship backed off after seeing pirates had taken hostages on board but the vessel was sunk hours later by the Indian Navy without verifying the identity of the sailors. The downed boat was owned by the Thai-based Sirichai Fisheries and was being held by heavily armed pirates at the time the Indian frigate, the INS Tabar, opened fire. Sirichai Fisheries confirmed the deep sea trawler FV EKAWAT NAVA 5 had been destroyed and said the crew were tied up when it opened fire. "The ship was hijacked early in the day and was sunk in the evening", its managing director Wicharn Sirchaiekawat told AFP in Bangkok. "Based on the surviving Cambodian crew member's account, all of them were tied up except two -- the captain and translator -- during the attack". Wicharn said the Thai foreign ministry had summoned the Indian ambassador to Thailand to hand over a complaint. "We want to know the details -- why it was sunk and why the Indian navy did not rescue the crew", he said. Sirichai Fisheries asked if any naval ships were in the area to help their stricken boat. The British navy responded, asking for information, but later told the company that pirates had already boarded the ship and any sort of attack on them could cause the crew to be harmed. Choong said that naval ships operating independently in the region should make efforts to obtain information on hijacked vessels, and link up with coalition forces to avoid confusion in the future. Hopefully this tragic incident will not happen again, and more importantly it should not hamper existing anti-piracy operation by the navy", he said.

Choong said that coalition forces and Yemeni authorities are searching for any survivors from the Thai fishing boat. The Sirichai Fishing Company is linked to the Puntland government and received from them fishing licences. They as well supported the Puntland "coastguard" by providing uniforms etc., but it is also clear that they are involved in the production and trading of tuna-fish products in cans, which are falsely declared as "Product of Thailand" and as such traded e.g. in Kenya.

Somali security forces will assault a hijacked Yemeni cargo vessel if the pirates refuse to release the ship without a ransom, Ali Abdi Aware, a state minister of Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland said Nov. 26, Reuters reported. Pirates hijacked the MV Adina and its crew of seven last week in the Gulf of Aden and are demanding a $2 million ransom. The owner of a Yemeni ship hijacked by Somalian pirates a week ago said Wednesday that Somalian security forces were preparing to storm the vessel, as he had refused to pay the demanded ransom. The ship, Erina, was attacked as it sailed from the south-eastern Yemeni port city of Mukalla to the Indian Ocean island of Socotra on November 19. It is now off the Eyl port, in the semi-autonomous Puntland region in northern Somalia. 'Security troops were sent from Bosasso to Eyl to rescue the ship by force', ship-owner Attas Salim Aboud, told Deutsche Presse- Agentur dpa by telephone from Mukalla. The vessel is now being blockaded by Somali forces, Aboud said. Independent confirmation of the action by Somali authorities was not immediately available. Aboud said the troops were backed by dozens of tribesmen who had rushed to Eyl to press for the ship's release. 'The pirates are now surrounded and could not get even food supplies', Aboud said. He said the ship 'will be stormed' if the pirates insist on their ransom demand.

The pirates have demanded 2 million dollars in ransom for the release of the vessel. Aboud, a Yemeni national of Somali origin, said on Tuesday he would not pay any ransom for the release of his ship. 'We will not pay even ten cents for the pirates', he told dpa, adding that tribal chieftains boarded the ship Tuesday, and that they were negotiating with the pirates. Eight crew members (three Yemenis, three Somalis and two from Tanzania) were taken hostage by the pirates. The ship is carrying 570 tons of steel and construction equipment belonging to the Juraiba and Bin-Makhzoum Construction company in Mukalla. This was the largest Yemeni ship to be hijacked by Somali pirates. In the past few months pirates have attacked fishing boats owned by Yemeni fishermen in the Gulf of Aden. One of them was attacked by British naval forces with two Somalis and one Yemeni man killed and 8 Somalis arrested, which were transferred into the jurisdiction of Kenya. The whereabouts of the 3 dead bodies is not know. At least two dead Somalis were in the freezer of the British auxiliary ship RFA (Royal Fleet Auxiliary) Wave Knight.

With the latest captures and releases still at least 17 foreign vessels with a total of around 363 crew members (of which 134 are Filipinos) are held and are monitored on our actual case-list, while several other cases of ships, which are observed off the coast of Somalia, have been reported or reportedly disappeared without trace or information, are still being followed. Over 110 incidences (including attempted attacks, averted attacks and successful sea-jackings) have been recorded to far for 2008 with until today 50 factual sea-jacking cases (incl. the presently held 17).

Other related news ------

Two foreign and two Somali journalists were kidnapped today at around 11:00 am local time on their way from their hotel to the airport in Boosaaso / Puntland, the north-eastern region of Somalia. The reporters had been in the semiautonomous region of Puntland for about a week, regional police spokesman Abshir Abdi Jama said. They could first not state the journalists' nationalities, but Jama said one was believed to be British. Puntland presidential adviser Bile Mohamoud Qabowsade told the AFP news agency they were taken by local militiamen in the city of Bossasso.

Other sources revealed their identity to be a British journalist working for a large paper and a Spanish freelance photographer. We are withholding their names until the next of kin are informed by the authorities. The British Foreign Office launched an urgent investigation into reports from local officers that a Briton was captured in the strife-torn nation. Both embassies in Nairobi are informed. The Spanish foreign ministry said later the Spanish national is photographer Jose Cendon, who is based in Addis Ababa and a contributor to several media, including AFP. The journalists were in the region since a week to cover the story of piracy hijackings off Puntland's coasts. Local humanitarian workers revealed that the two were abducted into the mountainous area of Galogalo at the border between Puntland and the Sanaag region and local observers believe that at least one of their direct contacts is among the masterminds of the abduction, said to be from the Dishishe clan. Journalists and humanitarian workers are frequently abducted for ransom in Somalia. In August, two freelance journalists, a Canadian woman and an Australian man, were kidnapped near the capital Mogadishu and are still being held. The war-wracked Horn of Africa nation was ranked as the world's second-deadliest country for journalists throughout 2007 by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.

The U.S. government said on Monday it will work with Kenya to fight rampant piracy which has rocked the coast of Somalia. Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Gen. William E. Ward, the commanding general of the U.S. Africa Command, discussed the issue of piracy in the Indian Ocean. The prime minister had vowed that his nation will take part how to crackdown the pirates those are at risk the world trade which is believed that world trade 90 percent travels by sea. The two officials also maintained that the cooperation of the two sides is necessary. Odinga asked the U.S. to help Kenya beef up its capacity to monitor the Ocean and the Kenya-Somalia border. He said piracy is driving up the cost of insurance for goods being shipped into Kenya through the Ocean.

Naval analyst Martin Murphy, from the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, like the absolute majority of serious analysts states that a long-term solutions to piracy must play out on land, where pirates have their bases.

In early November, one of southern Somalia's major ports fell to an advancing Islamist army. The U.N. had been using the "beach port" at Merka to deliver thousands of tons of food aid to refugee camps on the outskirts of Mogadishu. With its fall to the Islamists, there was concern that food shipments might be disrupted. But Pete Smerdon, a U.N. spokesman in Nairobi, Kenya, told World Politics Review that there is "no indication" the Islamists' rise will have any effect at all on the aid effort.

64th Update 2008-11-27 18:43:29 UTC

Ecoterra Intl. - Stay Calm & Solve it Peaceful & Fast !

Ecoterra International – Update & Media Release on the stand-off concerning the Ukrainian weapons-ship hi-jacked by Somali pirates.

We also can make sea-piracy in Somalia an issue of the past - with empathy and strength and through coastal and marine development as well as protection!

New EA Seafarers Assistance Programme Emergency Helpline: +254-738-497979
East African Seafarers Assistance Programme - Media Officer: +254-733-385868

Day 63 - 1516 hours into the FAINA Crisis - Update Summary

Efforts for a peaceful release continued, but the now two months long stand-off concerning Ukrainian MV FAINA is still not yet solved, though intensive negotiations have continued and both sides are striving to finalize the modalities of the safe release of crew and vessel.

Ecoterra Intl. renewed it's call to solve the FAINA and the SIRIUS STAR cases with first priority and peaceful in order to avert human and environmental disasters at the Somali coast. Anybody encouraging hot-headed and concerning such difficult situations inexperienced and untrained gunmen to try an attempt of a military solution must be held responsible for the surely resulting disaster.

News from other abducted ships ----

Thailand officially protested today concerning India’s sinking of a Thai fishing vessel, which left one crewman confirmed killed, one rescued and 14 missing. Only one of the 16 crewmen on board is known to have survived, who reported that six or seven others had been shot dead by the Indian naval forces. The Indian Navy has defended its actions, noting that it fired only after being fired on. The sole member of the fishing crew known so far to have survived is a Cambodian seaman who was picked up by Yemeni fishermen. The man, clinging to a metal barrel, had drifted for five days and 100 miles. He is recuperating in Yemen “and still very frightened”, Mr. Wicharn from the vessel-owners company Sirichai Fisheries said. “We’re still looking for the rest of the crew”, he said. “The survivor saw some of the crew jump into the sea”. United Nations Common Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) states in Article 106 clearly: "Where the seizure of a ship or aircraft on suspicion of piracy has been affected without adequate grounds, the State making the seizure shall be liable to the State the nationality of which is possessed by the ship or aircraft for any loss or damage caused by the seizure". Speculations have arisen, saying the INS Tabar actually used a kind of torpedo causing the fire-storm on the vessel. The Indian Navy said earlier that it had been the pirates' ammunition, which exploded. An official post-incident report is still outstanding. India, though it has now the big problems in Mumbai, caused by a massive terrorist attack with over 100 dead, at hand will have to clarify.

Dr. Fehmi Ulgener, a lawyer for the Turkish shipping company that owns the Yasa Neslihan, told The Guardian its crew had not been harmed. He said: "They have no health problems but they are bored, although that is to be expected. The company's personnel department is dealing with the crew's families and we are giving them information. At the moment, they are completely calm and are waiting for the good news", he said.

With the latest captures and releases still at least 17 foreign vessels with a total of around 363 crew members (of which 134 are Filipinos) are held and are monitored on our actual case-list, while several other cases of ships, which are observed off the coast of Somalia, have been reported or reportedly disappeared without trace or information, are still being followed. Over 110 incidences (including attempted attacks, averted attacks and successful sea-jackings) have been recorded to far for 2008 with until today 50 factual sea-jacking cases (incl. the presently held 17). NATO only lists now 15 cases (still including the sunk FV ETWANANAVA 5), which makes the ignorance to abductions of vessels from non-NATO or non-western or from the least developed countries obvious.

Other related news -----------------

Spain and Britain have created a crisis team to seek the release of a Spanish and a British journalist who were kidnapped in Somalia, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said Thursday. Spanish photographer Jose Cendon, 34, who contributes to media including the French news agency AFP and Daily Telegraph correspondent Colin Freeman, reportedly of Irish origin, are held by a group of Somalis. Mr. Cendon was actually born in Venezuela, put has taken Spanish nationality and has worked independently in Colombia, Venezuela, Israel and the Palestinian territories. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), who released the names, stated it was 'deeply concerned' for Cendon, Freeman and the Somali freelance journalists Awale Jama and Muktar Said. Their two counter-part journalists, who accompanied them, are said to also have been abducted, but the role of one of those "fixers" is not clear. Minister Moratinos said nobody had requested a ransom so far. Meanwhile two men were arrested today in connection with the kidnapping of the two foreign journalists, who were in northern Somalia reporting on the region's rampant piracy, police said. Six other suspects were on the run after the British and Spanish journalists were abducted Wednesday, said Abshir Abdi Jama, police spokesman in Somalia's semiautonomous Puntland region. The Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said the abductions are "a reminder that banditry, piracy and politically motivated crime pose a constant threat" to foreigners who go to Somalia.

Cendon and Freeman had intended to fly on Daalo airlines to the Ethiopian capital Addis Abeba, where Cendon is based, but never reached the plane. The car of the abducted journalists has been found abandoned in a mountainous area south of Boosaaso, local sources confirmed, and the hostages have been taken further uphill into the mountains of the Cal Madow range. A search-team even found a place where they had rested. The hostage-takers allegedly where in the beginning not more than 10-17 men, but now other fortune-seekers are linking up with them. According to the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), the business of kidnapping journalists for any reason is unacceptable. Puntland authorities must immediately secure the liberty of these journalists while cooperating with intellectuals and clan elders in order not to put their safety in danger, said Omar Faruk Osman, NUSOJ Secretary General. In December 2007, a Spanish doctor and an Argentine nurse were kidnapped in Puntland. They were released, reportedly against a ransom of 200,000 dollars (155,000 euros), while a recently in Puntland abducted German-American and a British oil-worker could be freed without ransom. Freelance journalists Amanda Lindhout (Canadian ) and Nigel Brennan (Australian) respectively, are still in captivity after being seized near the capital Mogadishu in August. If their Somali counterpart is still held too or working with the abductors is not known.

Somalia's interim President Abdullahi Yusuf landed in his native region of Puntland Wednesday after spending recent days in Libya, Sudan and Kenya. President Yusuf was welcomed in Garowe, the official capital of Puntland, by regional leader Gen. Adde Muse and various government officials and traditional elders, saying that his two-day rip to Puntland is related to "exchanging ideas" with local rulers. President Yusuf's trip to Puntland comes on a day Prime Minister Nur Adde signed a power-sharing agreement with an opposition faction. He further said that Yemen's ambassador in Somalia accompanied him in his trip, adding that the government of Yemen is requesting the Somali pirates to release its hijacked ship. The TFG president called for urgent and unconditional release of the ship by the regional administration of Puntland and stressed that failure to free the Yemeni ship, diplomatic and economic ties with Yemen will be strained. The president strongly condemned the hijacking of the Yemeni ship, saying it will have an impact on the political and economic relations between the Somali government and Yemen. It is unclear why president Yusuf is visiting Puntland while the rift between him and Prime Minister Nur Adde was widening. Puntland is preparing for a 'Unity Government' to elect a new President and Speaker. Puntland, located in northeastern Somalia, is slated to elect the new leaders in January 2009. Meanwhile, the overall traditional leader for the Darood people was enthroned today. Abdullahi Musse (nicknamed KingKong) was declared the new Bokor (= King) of the Darood. He hails from the Osman Mahamoud sub-clan of Majerteen.

Dramatic evidence that the United States is involved in illegal mercenary operations in East Africa has emerged in a string of confidential e-mails seen by The Observer. The leaked communications, first revealed by Africa Confidential, between US private military companies suggest the CIA had knowledge of the plans to run covert military operations inside Somalia -- against United Nations rulings -- and they hint at involvement of British security firms. Evidence of foreign involvement in the conflict would not only breach the UN arms embargo but could destabilise the entire region.

Jordan’s pro-government Ad Dustour daily ran a lead editorial saying piracy was the “bitter fruit” of foreign interference in Somalia, which ended with the collapse of the state following the withdrawal of the invading American troops in 1993. “Therefore, Washington and its allies, which occupied Somalia and detonated civil wars in the Horn of Africa under the banner of ‘creative chaos’, are the ones responsible for the loss of Somalia and the emergence of the piracy phenomenon”. Those powers seem to be moving the warlords and pirates “by remote control”, the paper wrote, while the Arab states are not sharing in finding a solution, even though many Red Sea states are Arab states. “Eliminating the piracy phenomenon is linked to the return of calm and stability to Somalia, which is – in our opinion – the responsibility of the major states and especially that of Washington”. On Wednesday, gunmen killed the head of nurses at the only facility giving free medical care to women and children in the capital, Mogadishu. Abukar Abdulahi Baji died after his vehicle was ambushed, said Dr. Bashir Sabriye of SOS Child and Maternity hospital.

In Cairo meanwhile, Arab league Secretary General Amr Moussa said on Thursday that the Ministerial Committee over Somalia will meet soon at League headquarters here to discuss the situation in Somalia. At a press conference here, Moussa warned against the presence of foreign forces that aim at creating chaos in Somalia. He called on Arab countries to support the legally elected government in Somalia and not to support one faction against the other. Moussa also said there were parties that aim at spreading disorder and bloodshed in Somalia, and aim at wasting all local and international efforts to improve the situation there.

East African defense chiefs are seeking consensus on revisions to a planned regional peacekeeping force for Somalia at a meeting in Nairobi. The meeting brought together chiefs of staff and senior military officers from the seven nations of Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), comprising Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Sudan, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Eritrea, who want to form a rapid response force for the region.

The Danish government has decided that the naval vessel Absalon, which is patrolling waters off the Horn of Africa has to remain in place for at least a few more months. Absalon had been due to return to Denmark in mid-January, but as a result of renewed pirate attacks on cargo vessels recently, her tour has been extended to April. "The government has discussed the issue and the Foreign and Economy and Trade ministers have emphasised the importance of a Danish presence in the war on piracy. I am delighted that we have been able to extend Denmark's contribution to Task Force 150", says Defence Minister Søren Gade (from the Liberal Party) in a news release.

The Ethiopian government has accused members of the Somali parliament of not performing their duties and only coming to Baidoa, [seat of Somali parliament] southwestern Somalia to collect their salaries every month end. Ethiopia's foreign affairs minister, Siyoum Mesfin, in a press statement issued today, said Somali parliamentarians were in Nairobi, Kenya, and were not at all assuming their responsibility for the Somali people. The minister, who also spoke about the conflict between the President of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmad and Prime Minister Nur Hasan Husayn, said that the difference between the two leaders was based on personal and clan issue, which he said, was worth shying away from. The Ethiopian foreign affairs minister in his press statement also said IGAD has made it clear that the top government officials of the TFG have not performed their responsibilities for the interest of the Somali people, and that of the country in general. He added that the problem in Somali today was not just the ongoing fighting, but also the conflict between the top government officials. He also attacked NATO troops who are based at the Somali coast, saying that they were not performing their duties. He said Somali pirates were not fish born in the sea, but were people who have come from the mainland, and that the problem in Somalia should first be addressed before a solution for the piracy is sought. In closing, the minister asked the international community to support the efforts of finding solution to Somali crisis, which he said, if resolved will result in stability in the horn of Africa.

Kenya's Foreign Affairs minister Moses Wetangula is appealing to the international community to cooperate in order to stamp out piracy in the Gulf region. Mr. Wetangula was speaking on Thursday when he held a meeting with a delegation from Spain led by Secretary of State for Tourism Mr. Joan Mesquida. Also in attendance was the Spanish Ambassador to Kenya H.E Mr. Luiz Martin Cinto. Mr. Wetangula said Kenya welcomed Spain's gesture to help in making the marine route safe again and assured the delegates that Kenya was ready to work with other stakeholders to deal with the pirates. He expressed his country's willingness to help Kenya in combating terrorism and piracy along the East Africa coastline in line with the UN Security Council Resolutions 1814, 1816 and 1838 and the Law of the Sea.

Breaking news Nov 28, 2008 1:27 PM

Maritime Kindergarten

Somali pirates hijacked today at 7.48am EAT (0447 hrs UTC) a Liberia-flagged, 1986 built chemical/oil Products tanker with a gross tonnage of 16,282 on Friday in the Gulf of Aden, which had 25 Indians, 2 sailors from Bangladesh and 3 Britons on board.

The vessel is managed by ISHIMA PTE LTD, Singapore, sports as registered owner a company called WINGED FOOT SHIPPING LTD from the Marshall Islands and is insured by Assuranceforeningen Gard - Norway while it is said to not be covered by an ITF but an IBF agreement.

The MT BISCAGLIA was attacked early Friday morning by five pirates, said Jean-Marc Le Quilliec, commander of the French frigate NivoseNivose, escorting a Panamanian-flagged Norwegian bulk carrier.

Three men escaped the attack by jumping overboard and were rescued, French navy sources say. The three crew members were fished out by a German Lynx navy helicopter and were dropped off on another French ship nearby, he told an AFP reporter on board the French naval vessel Nivose.

It has now transpired that the three British nationals were security personnel, who jumped off the ship while the pirates boarded - which makes this case of criminal piracy actually the sad joke of the day. While the Indian captain and his crew stood strong, their "security" abandoned ship.

The Gulf of Aden has become the global kindergarten for playing navies, Somali pirate youngsters as well as the money-jugglers and reflects pretty well the state of mental disorder this world is in.

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About The Author: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis - is Orientalist, Assyriologist, Egyptologist, Iranologist, Islamologist, Historian and Political Scientist. Dr. Megalommatis, 51, is the author of 12 books, dozens of scholarly articles, hundreds of encyclopedia entries, and thousands of articles. He speaks, reads and writes more than 15, modern and ancient, languages.

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