Under the translation of the soldiers, Li Lan and Lin Meiqi understood what these people were cheering for.

Each of them was shouting heroic, proud, proud slogans, and they did not lose any hope because they were caught, nor did they regret it.

Because they all believe that they are constantly driving away fishing boats from other countries, they are protecting the rights and interests of Somalis, and they are not breaking any laws. The people who really break the law are the foreign fishermen who come to fish.

Half of the Gulf of Aden was originally a fishing ground for the Somalis, but from 91 to the present, this fishing ground has become a public toilet, and anyone can come to it.

Moreover, foreign fishing boats often drive away Somali fishermen, and fishing here already violates the interests of Somalis, and driving out Somali fishermen is even more barbaric. This kind of thing, placed in any maritime country, is intolerable. Even American fishing boats would not dare to do such things in the territorial waters of other countries, let alone drive away other countries' fishing boats.

But the Somalis are not taken seriously by the fishermen of other countries at all, and they can be plundered and driven away at will, and no one will come to them anyway. Therefore, the situation naturally became more and more serious, and many fishermen spontaneously organized themselves when they went to sea, carrying weapons, and taking the initiative to drive away once they encountered fishing boats from other countries.

This kind of behavior sounds very sad, because there is no one to defend them, and everything can only rely on themselves. However, this kind of self-defense has become the target of key attacks in the fight against piracy. Outcome. The fishermen are the people who are now in prison.

"Then what country comes to your territorial waters to fish, and expels your normal fishing operations." Wait for the scene to calm down. Maggie Lin asked the third question.

"Yemen, Kenya. Oman, India, especially those in Europe and the United States, they have been engaged in devastating mechanical fishing every time, which has led to a sharp decline in fishery resources in recent years. They took away all the sharks and tuna that belonged to us and turned them into shark fins and canned food in their country. As a result, our space is compressed, and the amount of fish caught is also greatly reduced. The Indians, in particular, are not just driving us away. Warships also often fire at us, and they don't care about our life or death at all. ”

"Then you Weishenme don't ask for help from other countries' escort formations?"

"No one is going to bother with us, they're just going to take us as pirates. In their eyes, we are nothing more than an uncivilized bunch of savages, who do not treat us Somalis as human beings at all. ”

"And did each of you get caught for that?"

"No, some are real pirates, and unlike them, the real pirates are still locked up inside. We, like us, are just a group of heroes who have been wronged in order to defend our rights and interests. Not a real pirate. And we hate pirates, even though some of them often loot things to help civilians, but they are not heroes. So. We don't like those pirates. Because they are the ones who have led to the situation we are facing now. ”

"Didn't you people think about becoming pirates?"

"Nope. We can be poor, we can starve. But we don't want to deepen the international misunderstanding of us. We don't want to go to extremes like everyone else, because that would make more and more people hostile to us. It will deepen the overall international misunderstanding of us. In the whole of Somalia, there are only about 1,000 pirates, but there are tens of thousands of fishermen. We have the longest coastline in Africa and are rich in fisheries. But they have no rights and interests of their own, and they do not have the strength to safeguard the interests of the country. We have never thought of taking revenge with extreme means, as for the real pirates, they are a group of people whose hearts have been corrupted by the devil, and hunger has led them to extremes, and they will also go to hell because they get what they don't deserve, and Heaven will not take their souls. ”

"So, do you have any connection to the real pirates?"

Yes, many of them came to tempt us and make us fall with them, but we did not lose our faith because of temptation. If we all become pirates, there will be no one to help us. If we talk about pirates, then they arrested us for no reason, prevented us from fishing, burned our ships, aren't they also pirates? And they are pirates on our doorstep, and their actions are not even more hateful? ”

Asked here, Lin Meiqi pointed at Li Lan and asked, "Then do you know him?" ”

Under the soldier's translation, all the prisoners in the room suddenly stood up, and then faced Li Lan and bowed deeply.

"We know him, he saved so many Somalis, he's a really good guy, a really good guy who really sees us Somalis as human beings. Allah will bless him forever. ”

"How do you know?" Maggie Lin asked.

"My family came to visit the prison and he gave me a picture, so I knew it." With Lin Meiqi's words, these prisoners spoke one after another.

After listening to these people's answers, even Li Lan was slightly stunned, he didn't expect that these people would recognize him. And I didn't expect that in the hearts of these people, he still has such a high reputation.

In fact, before coming here, Li Lan had more or less learned about the details of these people. There is also a clear understanding of real pirates and fake pirates.

In the eyes of many people, these fishermen who went to sea with weapons and originally wanted to defend themselves were pirates. In the absence of sovereignty and justice, they do not have any opportunity to be heard. Nine times out of ten, the pirates who are caught here are fake pirates.

But there are also real pirates, and in recent years there have been thousands of people in Somalia who have actually engaged in piracy. Moreover, many pirates today also possess heavy weapons and rely on hijacking ships to obtain a source of livelihood.

It is the so-called full of warmth and lust, hunger and theft.

More than one-third of the Somali population in Somalia have received emergency relief due to years of war, and the so-called Somali shilling, daily inflation is getting higher and higher, coupled with drought and chaos among the warlords, resulting in poor livelihood and starvation.

This naturally stimulated the increase in the number of pirates, because as long as you succeed once, you can get a huge income. This is enough to make many people take the risk and join the bandwagon. In particular, after the hijacking of the Saudi Arabian supertanker Sirius, a ransom of three million US dollars was obtained, which stimulated the development of Somali pirates. More and more people are joining it. Maybe some people were forced, maybe some people were deceived, but they couldn't get off the boat anymore.

And Li Lan doesn't have much affection for those real Somali pirates, and as for these fishermen who have been caught, he plans to release them after they are truly verified. Those who have committed acts of piracy should be punished.

As for the legitimate rights and interests of the maritime that these people have repeatedly mentioned, Li Lan was also full of anger when he first learned about it. Because at that time, he remembered the dark period of China more than 100 years ago, and what happened to fishermen in Somalia today is very similar to that of China back then. It's just a microcosm.

Li Lan also hated those foreign fishing boats very much, they not only entered the exclusive economic zone of Somalia to fish, but also entered the exclusive territorial waters of Somalia. What's even more hateful is that these people are all killed no matter how big or small, and they don't let go if they miss it, no matter how small the fish are. As a result, in recent years, the fishery ecology of Somali waters has gradually lost its balance.

To make matters worse, Somali fishermen, as masters, in many cases, have to keep their voices down and watch the faces of fishermen in other countries eat. Fishing in one's own waters is often driven away by other countries.

In the past, some young Somali people also spontaneously organized some self-defense organizations to defend their rights and interests, but because they did not have the support of the state power and had no legal name, they could only be dealt with as pirates. This has also left many Somali fishermen without a place to live. Some were able to keep their faith, while others began to take revenge on the ships of various countries. Many pirates came from this.

The rest of the people still live on fish, because they have nothing to earn a living except fishing. But now, they can't even get out of the sea. In their words, either die or fight.

The reason why Li Lan is coming to Bossaso today is to listen to what these people have to say, because he also wants to organize fishermen to go to sea, and there are many fishermen in the territory who are engaged in other work. There are big haode marine resources, which are wasted there.

Therefore, no matter sooner or later, Li Lan must let them continue to go to the sea, which will also contribute to the economic development of the territory. But when fishermen go out to sea to fish, they first need fishing boats, and then they need a certain amount of liliang to escort them.

None of these are available to Li Lan now. And the main thing is to drive out other national fishing boats in the territorial waters. He can't control other places, but in territorial waters, he must fight for his own residents, which belong to them and belong to his own rights and interests.

After all, the sea outside the current territory is also his territory, the 12-nautical-mile territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone, and the continental shelf, and he has no intention of giving it up.

Before he didn't have the strength, he wouldn't say anything, but after he had the strength, this situation had to be changed. Whether it belongs to the rights and interests of the Somalis or to his personal interests. He has to be prepared and he has to make a difference. And it all starts today. (To be continued......)