I've only ever seen rather dishevelled 'ethnic' Somalis.
They only show the guys on the boats on the news. They are the pawns. The heads of the pirate organizations live in NBO, JNB, London and Canada. If their faces were on TV, then they would be arrested that day.
Interpol needs to find the money flow from the Pirate Heads into Somalia, track the Head Pirates down and put them in prison, and shut off the money flow.
It is similar to the Barbary Pirates. The money behind the scenes belonged to the Heads of the Ottoman Empire, and the governments along the Barbary Coast. They never went in the boats and did any physical pirating.
Ironically, a lot of the Barbary Pirates...the ones in the boats....came from England, The United Provinces (Netherlands today), Spain, etc.
cliff
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