In 2008, pressure from international commerce gave birth to the organized military defense of trade routes. According to some pools, over 70 percent of local Somali population supports their pirate fleet as one of the main protectors of the nation fishing grounds. Successful pirates live much better than the remainder of the country, which fuels the constant arrival of new pirates hungry for glory and wealth. The lack of strong government, poverty and ever present crime created situation where pirates started to work for local crime lords, under the guise of serving as coast guards. As the international warships became more and more present, so did Somalia pirates started using more and more advanced techniques (as of now, they use naval mother ships that allow them to organize large scale attacks on a distant targets on open sea).
Although exact cause of those attack are not known (some claim that fisherman wanted to protect their waters from foreign ships, or that foreign toxic dumps created massive loss of sea life which forced fishermen to violence), as time went on more and more pirates started attacking shipping lanes traveling from Suez to India, and vice versa. The first organized pirate attack carried on by Somali pirates started shortly after the start of the second phase of the Somali Civil War in 2005.
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