Where Killers Go Free - A Dispatch From the Outlaw Ocean
- Author:
- Ian Urbina
- Publisher:
- The Outlaw Ocean Project
- Publication Date:
- 17 April 2023
- Tags:
- Africa, East Africa, Legal and Judicial Affairs, Oceans and Rivers
Four men desperately cling to wreckage, somewhere in the Indian Ocean. Shots ring out. The men are gunned down, methodically, one by one. There are witnesses to their slaughter, yet like 99 percent of murders that occur in international waters, the crime goes unreported. When the footage finally surfaces on a cellphone, abandoned in a taxi, no government is willing to investigate.
In the first of a series on this lawless environment, Ian Urbina, an award-winning investigative journalist, reports on the video-recorded murder of the occupants of an East African fishing dhow by the captain and crew of a Taiwanese-registered fishing vessel which was part of fishing fleet known for aggressive behaviour towards smaller artisanal boats.
