SEA PIRACY

Indian Ocean is pested with sea piracy. It is a region where sea traffic is immense and daily a minimum of 250 vessels are passing through in this area. Still the vessels are intercepted and pirated very often. Of course it has been a regular phenomena in seafaring from bygone days.

The days are changing fast. Now we have introduced latest communication technologies, satellite surveillance, point blank laser guided weapons, meticulous tracking of any tiny object in any part of the universe but we cannot control properly this menace or guard our ocean routes.

Indian warships have destroyed one of the mother vessels of piracy. It is a laudable feat. But it may not be the end of it all. On the other hand it may provoke the wrath of the prevailing pirates and jeopardise the fate of other Indian prisoners as well as the prisoners of other nations in sea piracy.

This crime should be annihilated by the co-ordination of all international community of nations. The breeding ground and developing routes should be destroyed and watch out that it should not raise its ugly criminal head in future.

There is no government or controlling national body at Somali. The groups that operate from Somali should be detected by an international body and put to an end to this heinous crime permanently. Otherwise it may develop and engulf the whole sea route and assimilate bigger commercial carriers worth billions of dollars of international consumer commodities making way for black marketing at nearby weaker nations and raising immense wealth for underworld activities.

The future would be challenging to think that this ill-gotten wealth might further lead to international terrorism and mass destruction in civilized nations.