[Omatako]

With the greatest of respect I need to say that until you have lived in Africa, you will not understand the attitudes that prevail there and they're reasonably consistent all over the continent. It has been manifested in the Congo, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, the list is endless.

Africans have scant regard for human life. They kill at the slightest provocation and often without provocation. The only reason the British couple are still alive is because they represent a possible financial windfall to their captors. Once it becomes evident that the windfall is off the table, those folks are toast.

We should all be able to recall that this whole piracy thing in Somlaia started with the misguided belief that these were fishermen who were doing this as a protest for the multi-nationals fishing the Somalian waters to destruction. Well, by now we should all know that that postulation was a load of bollocks.

These people are and always have been the bottom of the food chain and they do not understand the concept of compassion - they will kill in a heartbeat when they have nothing left to gain from a situation. The reason that 95% of their nation is starving is because they only look after No.1. They don't give a toss about anybody else.

Ask Bob Geldof - he has 74 million reasons to support the above opinion.