10/23/2020 10:20 AM
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Updated 10/23/2020 10:56
The video would be from 2012 or 2103 and
now they have arrested a captain,
one of those responsible for the massacre, according to Taiwan prosecutors, the nationality of the victims.
The incident was investigated in 2015 by the
Outlaw Ocean Project
.
According to the video, the shots would have come from the Chinese ship Ping Shing 101 in charge of the captain of Chinese nationality, Wang Feng Yu.
The man balancing in the sea raises his arms in apparent surrender before being
shot in the head
.
He floats upside down as his blood stains the blue water of the Indian Ocean
A slow-motion kill unfolds over the next
6 minutes and 58 seconds
.
In the seas there are more and more pirates, and each time with better weapons.
AP Photo
Three other men floating in the ocean, some clinging to what looks like the wreckage of an overturned wooden boat, are surrounded by several large albacore longliners.
The sky is clear and blue;
the sea below, dark and rough.
While the ships' engines are noisily idling, at least
40 rounds
are fired
as the unarmed men are methodically eliminated.
"Shoot, shoot, shoot!"
a voice commands over one of the ship's speakers as the last man dies.
Shortly after, a group of men on deck who appear to be crew members laugh at each other and then pose for selfies.
A mystery
Despite dozens of witnesses on at least four ships, those murders remain
a mystery
.
No one even reported the incident;
there is no requirement to do so under maritime law and no clear method for seafarers, moving from port to port, to volunteer what they know.
Law enforcement officials learned of the deaths only after video of the killings was found on a cell phone left
in a taxi in Fiji in 2014
and later posted online.
The oceans, plowed by more ships than ever, are also more armed and dangerous than at any time since World War II, naval historians say.
Every year thousands of sailors are victims of violence, with hundreds killed, according to maritime security officials, insurers and naval investigators.
In three regions alone, the western Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia and the Gulf of Guinea off West Africa, more than 5,200 seafarers were
attacked by pirates
and thieves and more than 500 were taken hostage, a database built by
The New York Times,
which told the story in 2013.
Many merchant ships hired
private security
starting in 2008 when pirates began operating in large areas of the ocean, exceeding the police capacity of governments.
Guns and guards at sea are now so ubiquitous that
a niche industry of floating armories has emerged
.
The vessels, part storage depot and part barracks, are located in high-risk areas of international waters and house hundreds of assault rifles, small arms and ammunition.
The guards on board wait, sometimes for months in decrepit conditions, for their next deployment.
Clarín
writing
with information from Outlaw Ocean Project
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