How Can Pirates Exist in the 21st Century | History of Somali Pirates

Get MagellanTV here: & get an exclusive offer extended to our viewers: an extra month FREE. MagellanTV is a new kind of streaming service run by filmmakers with 2,000 documentaries! Check out our personal recommendation and MagellanTV’s exclusive playlists: One of the more interesting historical phenomena to be revived in the early 2000s is certainly the resurgence of piracy off the coast of Somalia. For over a decade spiking in 2010, pirates from Somalia terrorised the shipping lanes of the Indian Ocean, boarding cargo ships, personal yachts and fishing trawlers, bringing the vessels back to the coast and holding their occupants hostage before demanding a payment of ransom. But how is this possible in the modern world? In this video we'll explore the twentieth century history of Somalia, the military dictatorship, civil wars and breakdown of society making piracy a viable profession for thousands of y