ဆိုမာလီ ပင္လယ္ဓားျပ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ကို ႐ုပ္ရွင္႐ိုက္ကူးမည္ဟု လွည့္ျဖားစည္း႐ံုးၿပီးေနာက္ ဘယ္လ္ဂ်ီယံက ဖမ္းဆီးႏိုင္ခဲ့ျပီ
ဆိုမာလီ ပင္လယ္ဓားျပေခါင္းေဆာင္ မိုဟာမက္ အဗၺဒီဟက္ဆန္ကို ၂၀၁၃ ခုႏွစ္ ဇန္န၀ါရီ ၉ ရက္က ႐ိုက္ကူးထားသည့္ ဓာတ္ပံု
ဆိုမာလီ ပင္လယ္ဓားျပ ဘ၀ကို မွတ္တမ္းတင္ ႐ုပ္ရွင္႐ိုက္ရာတြင္ ပါ၀င္ရမည္ဟု
ကတိေပး စည္း႐ံုးခဲ့ၿပီးေနာက္ နာမည္ဆိုးျဖင့္ ေက်ာ္ၾကားသည့္ ဆိုမာလီယာ
ပင္လယ္ဓားျပ ေခါင္းေဆာင္တစ္ဦးကို ဘယ္လ္ဂ်ီယံက ဖမ္းဆီးရမိခဲ့ေၾကာင္း အစိုးရ
ေရွ႕ေနမ်ားက ေအာက္တိုဘာ ၁၄ ရက္တြင္ ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။ “ပါးစပ္ႀကီး” ဟု
သိၾကသည့္ ပင္လယ္ဓားျပေခါင္းေဆာင္ မိုဟာမက္ အဗၺဒီဟက္ဆန္ကို ဘ႐ုေဂးၿမိဳ႕တြင္
ဖမ္းဆီးထားေၾကာင္း ဘယ္လ္ဂ်ီယံ အစိုးရေရွ႕ေနယို ဟန္ဒယ္မူလီက ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။
ပါးစပ္ႀကီးႏွင့္ “တီေဆး” ဟု ထင္ရွားသည့္ သူ၏အေပါင္းအေဖာ္ မိုဟာမက္
ေအဒင္တို႔ကို ပင္လယ္ဓားျပမႈ၊ ျပန္ေပးဆြဲမႈ၊ ရာဇ၀တ္မႈတို႔ျဖင့္
တရားစြဲဆိုထားေၾကာင္း ဘယ္လ္ဂ်ီယံ အစိုးရေရွ႕ေန၏ ေၾကညာခ်က္တြင္
ေဖာ္ျပခဲ့သည္။
၂၀၀၉ ခုႏွစ္က ဘယ္လ္ဂ်ီယံသေဘၤာ “ပြမ္ပီ” ကို ဆိုမာလီ ကမ္းလြန္တြင္
ပင္လယ္ဓားျပတို႔က ရက္ ၇၀ ေက်ာ္ ဖမ္းဆီးထိန္းသိမ္းခဲ့ၿပီးေနာက္
ယခုတရားစြဲဆိုမႈမ်ား ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ အက်ဳိးစီးပြား ႀကီးမားသည့္
ပင္လယ္ဓားျပ အလုပ္ကို ရွစ္ႏွစ္ၾကာ လုပ္ကိုင္ခဲ့ၿပီးေနာက္ မိုဟာမက္
အဗၺဒီဟက္ဆန္ ဆိုသူ “ပါးစပ္ႀကီး” က ပင္လယ္ဓားျပ အလုပ္ကို စြန္႔လႊတ္ေၾကာင္း
ဇန္န၀ါရီလတြင္ မိုဂါဒစ္႐ႈးၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ေၾကညာခဲ့သည္။ ထို႔ေနာက္ က်န္ပင္လယ္
ဓားျပမ်ားကိုလည္း အလားတူ ေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္ သူကစည္း႐ံုးခဲ့သည္ဟု မိုဟာမက္
အဗၺဒီဟက္ဆန္က ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။
၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္မွ ၂၀၁၃ ခုႏွစ္အတြင္း ပင္လယ္ကူး သေဘၤာမ်ားကို
ျပန္ေပးဆြဲခဲ့ၿပီးေနာက္ မိုဟာမက္ အဗၺဒီဟက္ဆန္သည္ ပင္လယ္ဓားျပ စီးပြားေရး၌
အဓိကက်သူတစ္ဦး ျဖစ္လာခဲ့သည္ဟု ကုလသမဂၢ အစီရင္ခံစာ တစ္ေစာင္က ဆိုသည္။
“ပြမ္ပီ” သေဘၤာကို အိႏၵိယ သမုဒၵရာအတြင္း ဆိုမာလီ ကမ္းလြန္မွ မိုင္ ၇၀၀
အတြင္း ပင္လယ္ဓားျပမ်ားက ဖမ္းဆီးသြားခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ ျပန္ေပးေငြကို
ေလထီးမွတစ္ဆင့္ ခ်ေပးခဲ့ၿပီးေနာက္ ဖမ္းဆီးခံထားရေသာ ဘယ္လ္ဂ်ီယံ
အရာရွိႏွစ္ဦးႏွင့္ ဒတ္ခ်္ကပၸတိန္တစ္ဦး အပါအ၀င္ သေဘၤာအမႈထမ္း ကိုးဦးကို
ျပန္လႊတ္ေပးခဲ့သည္။ စံုစမ္းစစ္ေဆးမႈ တစ္ခုအရ ယင္းပင္လယ္ဓားျပမ်ားထဲမွ
ႏွစ္ဦးကို ဖမ္းဆီးႏိုင္ခဲ့ၿပီး ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ ပင္လယ္ဓားျပတစ္ဦးကို
ေထာင္ ၁၀ ႏွစ္ႏွင့္ ၂၀၁၂ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ အျခားပင္လယ္ဓားျပ တစ္ဦးကို
ေထာင္ဒဏ္ကိုးႏွစ္ ခ်မွတ္ခဲ့သည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ ဘယ္လ္ဂ်ီယံ အစိုးရေရွ႕ေန႐ံုးက
ပြမ္ပီသေဘၤာ ဖမ္းဆီးမႈအတြက္ အဓိကတရားခံကို လက္မလြတ္ရန္ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း
ေရွ႕ေနဒယ္မူလီက ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။
စံုစမ္းစစ္ေဆးမႈမ်ားအရ “ပါးစပ္ႀကီး” သည္ ပြမ္ပီသေဘၤာ ျပန္ေပးဆြဲမႈကို
စီစဥ္ေဆာင္ရြက္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ဘယ္လ္ဂ်ီယံ ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႔က သံသယ ရွိခဲ့သည္။
“တီေဆး” ဟု ထင္ရွားသည့္ သူ၏အေပါင္းအေဖာ္မွတစ္ဆင့္ “ပါးစပ္ႀကီး” ကို
ဆက္သြယ္ခဲ့ၿပီး ၎တို႔ႏွစ္ဦးအား ပင္လယ္ဓားျပ႐ုပ္ရွင္ ႐ိုက္ကူးေရးအတြက္
အၾကံေပးႏွင့္ ကြၽမ္းက်င္သူေနရာမွ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္
ကမ္းလွမ္းခဲ့ေၾကာင္း အစိုးရေရွ႕ေန ဒယ္မူလီ၏ ေၾကညာခ်က္တြင္ ေဖာ္ျပခဲ့သည္။
ပါးစပ္ႀကီးႏွင့္ မိုဟာမက္ေအဒင္္တို႔သည္ ေအာက္တိုဘာ ၁၂ ရက္ေန႔က
႐ုပ္ရွင္သေဘာတူညီခ်က္ လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးရန္ ႏိုင္႐ိုဘီမွတစ္ဆင့္
ဘရပ္ဆဲလ္ေလဆိပ္သို႔ ေရာက္ရွိလာခဲ့ၿပီးေနာက္ ဖမ္းဆီးထိန္းသိမ္း ခံခဲ့ရျခင္း
ျဖစ္သည္။(NEWS:AFP(MWD)
မူရင္းသတင္း
Brussels (AFP) - Belgium has arrested a notorious Somali pirate chief
after luring him to Brussels on promises of shooting a documentary
movie about his life on the high seas, prosecutors said Monday.
Federal
prosecutor Johan Delmulle said Mohamed Abdi Hassan, better known as
"Afweyne" or "Big Mouth", was being held in the Belgian city of Bruges
after being detained at Brussels airport Saturday when he stepped off a
flight from Nairobi.
Afweyne and his powerful accomplice, Mohamed
Aden "Tiiceey", the former governor of Somalia's self-proclaimed Himan
and Heeb statelet, were facing charges of kidnapping, piracy and
organised crime, the prosecutor said in a statement he read to the press
in French and Dutch.
The charges followed the 2009 capture of a
Belgian ship, the Pompei, seized and held by pirates off the Somali
coast for more than 70 days.
Afweyne announced in Mogadishu in
January that he was quitting piracy after a highly profitable eight-year
career. He said he was working to persuade other pirates to do the
same.
A UN report has described him as one of the lynch-pins in
the piracy business which made a fortune attacking dozens of merchant
vessels between 2008 and 2013.
The Pompei was captured by dozens
of pirates 700 miles off Somalia in the Indian Ocean. The nine
crew-members, including two Belgian officers and the Dutch captain, were
held in gruelling conditions until a ransom was dropped by parachute.
An
inquiry led to the arrest and conviction of two of the pirates, one
sentenced to 10 years in jail in 2011, the other to nine years in 2012.
But
the Belgian prosecutor's office had not let up its determination to
bring to book the people "behind this act of piracy, who ordered,
financed and organised logistical backup," Delmulle said.
In the
case of the Pompei, Belgian police suspected Afweyne of organising and
financing the attack after questioning one of the officers and hearing
evidence from some of the pirates.
As he was a resident of Somalia
and rarely travelled, police "elaborated an infiltration operation
aimed at arresting Afweyne outside of Somalia," the prosecutor said.
"The plan was to approach Afweyne through the intermediary of his accomplice named Tiiceey," his statement added.
"Via
Tiiceey, Afweyne was asked to collaborate as an advisor and expert on a
film project on maritime piracy. The film was supposed to reflect his
life as a pirate."
But when Afweyne and Tiiceey landed on Saturday
morning to sign the movie contract, "they were awaited and taken into
custody," the prosecutor said.
'Notorious and influential' pirate
Described
last year by the UN as "one of the most notorious and influential
leaders" in Somalia's pirate hub, Afweyne notably was involved in the
2008 capture of the Saudi-owned Sirius Star oil supertanker, released
for a ransom of several million dollars.
He also reportedly took
part in the 2008 capture of the MV Faina, a Ukrainian transport ship
carrying 33 refurbished Soviet-era battle tanks, which was released
after a 134-day hijack.
A spokesman for EU foreign policy chief
Catherine Ashton welcomed the arrests as a new breakthrough in the fight
to stop piracy off the Somali coast.
"While fully respecting the
principle of presumption of innocence, we consider that this arrest
marks a significant step in the fight against piracy," said spokesman
Sebastien Brabant.
"It demonstrates that law enforcement
authorities can now track not only the pirates themselves, but also the
leaders of these criminal networks, who benefit most from pirate
attacks."
The European Union heads the EUNAVFOR Atalanta navy
operation against piracy, which has helped stem attacks. There have been
no successful captures of ships since May 2012.
The Belgian arrests came as three Somali pirates went on trial in France for the 2009 hijacking of a French yacht.
French troops stormed the sailboat and captured the trio, but also accidentally shot dead the boat's skipper, Florent Lemacon.
As the trial opened in Rennes, the young defendants said they had been driven to piracy by famine and poverty.
AFP