In Somalia, almost all the coastal villages are supporting piracy at sea.
Piracy at sea is successful in Somalia because Somali pirates are well organized and they 
- hire necessary muscle power from unemployed youth to use weapons and communication equipment.
- buy sophisticated guns, Rocket Propelled Grenade launchers, satellite phones and luxury vehicles from foreign businessmen.
- hire poor fishermen to provide their boats and navigational skills at sea to capture the vessel.
- look after hostages well and they try their best to provide good food, drinks and cigarettes.
- successfully collect ransom.
Interesting information is available on the lavish life styles of Somali pirates. Some of the interesting features of Somali pirates and their lavish life styles are:
- Piracy in Somalia is in many ways socially acceptable.
- Most of the Somali pirates are young, between 20 and 35 years of age.
- On an average Somali pirates collect a ransom of $2 million for each captured vessel.
- Somali pirates have money; they have power; and they are getting stronger day by day.
- Somali women say “Marrying a pirate is every Somali girl’s dream. He has power, money, immunity, the weapons to defend the tribe and funds to give to the militias in civil war.”
- Somali pirates wed the most beautiful girls; they are building big houses; they have new cars; new guns.
- “One night I got $1,000 from a pirate,” a prostitute from Djibouti said. “But the luckiest is to sleep with the group leader. You get $3,000.”
- a 36 year old mother of five says “Our children are not worrying about food now, and they go to Islamic schools in the morning and play soccer in the afternoon. They are happy”.
- Educated Somali youth says “Women here don’t talk to you if you are not a pirate”
- Somali pirates don’t mind to look after the hostages well as they get hefty ransom in return. Special restaurants have come up to supply food for the crews of the hijacked ships.
Somali pirates rarely go to jail. But what happens to those Somali pirates who are sent to jail ? How the pirates rot in Somalia jail ?
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