Diaspora uncles and 'fathers against pirates' were as decisive as the frigates in ending the piracy scourge. Jamal Osman speaks to Hazel Healy.
HAZEL HEALY: Tell me about how Somali attitudes to pirates have evolved.
JAMAL OSMAN: I was in Garowe [administrative capital of Puntland] in 2008, doing vox pops, and people said: ‘pirates are brilliant’, ‘heroes’, ‘good guys’. I returned in 2010, to the exact same place, and attitudes had changed. Now they were ‘bad guys’. Some houses that belonged to pirates had been burned down.
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