{"id":11752,"date":"2012-06-22T11:40:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T09:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/somali-piracy-death-toll-rises-as-violence-worsens\/"},"modified":"2012-06-22T11:40:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T09:40:08","slug":"somali-piracy-death-toll-rises-as-violence-worsens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/somali-piracy-death-toll-rises-as-violence-worsens\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali piracy death toll rises as violence worsens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* At least 35 killed in last year, often in rescue attempts<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* At least 555 hostages taken in 2011, 645 in 2010<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Captives held longer, receive much harsher treatment<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Peter Apps, Political Risk Correspondent<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, June 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Somali pirates seizing Indian<br \/>\nOcean ships were responsible for at least 35 hostage deaths in<br \/>\n2011, a report showed on Friday, with levels of violence rising.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The number of prisoners taken by pirates fell to 555, at<br \/>\nleast, in 2011 from 645 in 2010, the report by the U.S.-based<br \/>\nOne Earth Future foundation and International Maritime Bureau<br \/>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eight were known to have been killed by their captors either<br \/>\nduring their initial capture or were executed later, it said,<br \/>\nwith another eight dying of malnutrition or disease. The<br \/>\nremainder were killed either during rescue attempts by military<br \/>\nforces or while trying to escape.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While solid data on previous years is limited, the total of<br \/>\n35 is seen as by far the highest number of piracy-related<br \/>\nfatalities in a single year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know these figures are almost certainly an<br \/>\nunderestimate,&#8221; project manager Kaija Hurlburt told Reuters. &#8220;A<br \/>\nlot of the ships now being taken are regional dhows that are<br \/>\noften never reported. They might have 12 to 20 people aboard<br \/>\neach time.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* At least 35 killed in last year, often in rescue attempts * At least 555 hostages taken in 2011, 645 in 2010 * Captives held longer, receive much harsher treatment By Peter Apps, Political Risk Correspondent LONDON, June 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Somali pirates seizing Indian Ocean ships were responsible for at least 35 hostage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}