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Shipowners form human SOS to protest piracy
May 24, 2012 —Shipowners from all over Asia gathered to form a massive human SOS as a demonstration of their support for the international SOS SaveOurSeafarers campaign. The shipowners meetings this week in Australia for the 21st Asian Shipowners Forum (ASF) which had piracy at the top of their agenda.
In the last seven years, 62 seafarers have died as a result of pirate actions, and getting on for 4,000 have been held hostage on some 200 ships hijacked by Somali pirates. "These innocent seafarers, just doing their jobs to keep the world supplied with raw materials and finished goods, get hijacked and suffer extreme mental and physical torture. We call on the world to take note that these people are working and putting themselves on the front line for you," says Alastair Evitt, Chairman of SOS SaveOurSeafarers.
Noel Hart, Chairman of the 21st ASF, says, "The operation carried out by EU Naval Forces on May 15, 2012 to disrupt pirate supplies and bases on the Somali shoreline is welcome and has sent a clear signal that piracy cannot be tolerated. Blatant attacks on innocent ships and seafarers must be stopped."
The Seafarers Committee of the ASF expressed its strong concern at the trauma, agony, suffering and lasting psychological and physical effects on seafarers and their families caused by pirate attacks.
Li Shanmin, Chairman of the Seafarers Committee, says, "The situation continues to be a serious crisis, one that deeply affects the mental health of seafarers and their families. The threat cannot be forgotten and we demand that all possible action is taken to alleviate the situation."
SOS SaveOurSeafarers is the biggest ever grouping of the international maritime industry with 31 international organisations joined together to raise awareness of the human and economic cost of piracy via the media and by using approaches to politicians and industrial leaders at the highest level. It started operation in March 2011. Since then, over 118,000 visits to its website have come from 194 countries and over 32,000 letters have been sent to governments worldwide. Its main aims are to raise the profile of Somali piracy in political and media circles, in order to see Somali piracy deterred, defeated and eradicated, and to stop seafarers being tortured and murdered.
（译文参考：船舶管理部 傅恒星编译）
船东排成SOS抗议海盗活动
2012年5月24日，本周来自亚洲各处的船东在澳大利亚参加了主要议题关于应对海盗的“21世纪亚洲船东论坛ASF”。船东们排成巨大的SOS形状向海盗示威抗议，支持国际社会SOS“拯救我们的海员”运动。
过去的7年里，有62名海员死于海盗袭击，约200艘船4000名船员被索马里海盗作为人质扣留、抢劫。这些无辜的被扣船员为世界提供丰富的原材料及产品而工作，却被海盗劫持，遭受精神上和身体上非人的摧残和折磨。我们大声疾呼，这些海员的工作是为了你们而将自己投身于危险第一线。
21st ASF 主席Noel Hart,说欧盟海军5月15日展开的破坏索马里海盗沿岸物资供应线的军事行动深受欢迎，该行动发出明确信号即，海盗活动不能继续被容忍。公然袭击无辜船舶及船员的举动必须停止。
ASF海员委员会在被海盗袭击的船员极其家庭所遭受的创伤、痛苦、悲愤和持久的心理及生理上的影响表示强烈的关心。
海员委员会主席李善明说，目前严重的情况依然持续，深深影响船员和其家庭的心理健康。遭受过的恐吓无法忘怀，我们要求应采取一切可能措施来消除或减轻伤害对船员的影响。
SOS“拯救我们的海员”是世界上最大的一个国际航运业组织，有31个国际组织参与其中，利用最高级别的政府官员及业界领导人通过媒体等媒介提高世人关于海盗活动对人身安全及经济造成损失的认识。该组织于2011年3月份正式运作，此后其网站有来自194个国家和地区超过118000人访问量，超过32000封信件发往世界各地政府。它的主要目的是为在政治和媒体领域提升打击索马里海盗活动的受益方,为了看到索马里海盗被吓倒,击败,根除,并停止其折磨、杀害海员的行为。
