The Russian Navy has captured 10 Somali pirates. The disparity between a Russian nuclear battlecruiser and a pirate skiff is almost comical."The nuclear cruiser Pyotr Veliky has detained three small pirate boats," said Igor Dygalo, adding that 10 armed men of Somali citizenship were seized in the operation Thursday.
The pirates had been spotted by the cruiser's helicopter southeast of the Yemeni island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean, the spokesman told AFP.
"It was visually established how weapons were being dumped from the boats into the sea," Dygalo said in a separate statement.
Noteworthy, it suggests the Russians will be taking them to Russia for prosecution. If the weapons have been dumped into the sea, it seems there may not be much evidence to be used by a prosecution...
Which is part of the problem here. On one hand we want to hold people accountable with liberal justice, and on the other hand the Western countries are all looking for countries with a lower standard of guilt to insure successful prosecution. No matter what you do, short of killing the pirates it really does look ugly from a legal perspective. Sad when killing them all is the clean, legal option.
I don't know what the Russian law says, but I have a feeling the helicopters camera will be enough evidence to lock these folks away for many years.
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