24, spokesman of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council An Fengshan said that the 26 crew members who survived the Omani Taiwanese fishing boat "NAHAM3" who was hijacked by Somalia pirates for 4 and a half years were safely rescued on the 22nd. Nine mainland crew members and one Taiwanese crew member will return to the motherland under the custody of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to the wishes of the rescued Taiwanese crew member Shen Ruizhang and his family members, Shen will return to Guangzhou from the capital of Kenya, Nairobi, and his family will be picked up from Guangzhou and returned to Taiwan.
This also means that 26 Asian crew members, including compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, have finally embarked on the long journey home.
23, they arrived in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. After the end of this torture, the uncontrollable tears or bright smiles were all the true expressions after rebirth.
Regarding the inside story of this Omani Taiwanese fishing boat hijacked by pirates and its crew being rescued after twists and turns, Taiwanese media disclosed some details -
▲Shen Ruizhang, a Taiwanese, is a commander of the Omani Taiwanese fishing boat "NAHAM3".
On March 26, 2012, the "NAHAM3" in which Shen Ruizhang was responsible was hijacked by Somali pirates in the waters south of Seychelles, and became the last fishing boat hijacked during the rampant pirates. The fishing boat was planted with Oman flag, but the owner was Hong Kaohsiung, the owner of Jianchang Marine Enterprises, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. There were originally 29 people on the ship, but Taiwanese captain Zhong Huide was unfortunately killed. During this period, two crew members, including mainland crew members, unfortunately died of illness. In the end, 26 people became bargaining chips for pirates to claim ransom.
▲In March 2012, after the Omani fishing boat "NAHAM3" owned by Taiwanese shipowners was hijacked by Somali pirates, helicopter aviation filming discovered that pirates occupied the fishing boat and aimed at surveillance with weapons.
According to Taiwan's China Times, the pirates asked the owner for a ransom of $1.5 million, but the owner considered losing one or two million dollars in the fishing boat. The million-dollar fishing boat was also lost and was only willing to give out $300,000. The hostages were originally controlled on the fishing boat, but later died because of the pirates who hijacked the fishing boat, and were resold to other pirates, causing the rescue to go through many ups and downs.
Taiwan media also reported that former Kuomintang national representative and current executive of the Kuomintang Policy Association, Cai Zhengyuan, who had coordinated in the middle, revealed that because he learned that he had rescued Zhang Anwei, a Taiwanese businessman who was kidnapped by a terrorist organization in Malaysia, at the end of 2013, Shen Ruizhang's family came to him and knelt down and expressed their feelings, hoping that he would extend his help. However, at that time, the Taiwan authorities refused to "government" intervention in fundraising in violation of international principles, which made him feel disappointed.
Tsai Zhengyuan also disclosed the note of Zhang Shanzheng, then deputy director of the Taiwan administrative department, which said "has to refuse" four major reasons for the rescue:
First, the Taiwan authorities have informed that the sea area is a dangerous area, but "Naham3" still entered the local operation;
First, governments of various countries or regions have never come forward when they encounter pirates hostage. If they intervene, the United States may question the compromise between Taiwan and terrorists, which violates the international anti-terrorism principle;
First, "NAHAM3" is not registered as a Taiwanese fishing boat, which may cause international doubts about Taiwan registering other fishing boat operations to evade the fishing limit regulations;
First, the Taiwan authorities have not compiled such ransom budget, etc., so the Taiwan authorities should not be involved in fundraising matters.
▲Last night, Zhang Shanzheng, the head of the Taiwan executive agency, wrote on his personal social networking website, "After thinking about it, I had to endure the pain of refusing Cai Zhengyuan. This reminds me of the movie "The Angry Sea Tribulation". It's just that Taiwan is small and has weak strength. It seems helpless except to dissuade fishing boats from going to dangerous seas."
has no way to ask for help from the Taiwan authorities, and then Cai Zhengyuan turned to the Cross-Strait People's Service Center where he served as director, and organized negotiations with pirates through the "Hostage Support Partner".
After he ran around at home and abroad to "beg for alms" and mediated for three years, the pirates who originally kidnapped people were killed and other pirates took over the negotiations. In the end, with the help of entrepreneurs from Taiwan, mainland China, Hong Kong, Philippines and other places, the price was adjusted 6 times and the hostages were finally rescued.
He said that he had watched the video before saving someone and was sure that the person was still alive. He negotiated negotiations with the pirates for a long time and hid his identity as a "legislator", mainly because he was afraid that the public office would be misunderstood as a representative of the "government", and might be raised, affect the ransom negotiations, and misunderstood by United Nations , so he came forward with a pseudonym.
▲The hijacked Taiwanese engineer Shen Ruizhang once recorded a video surrounded by militants and exposed his upper body. He said, "During the detention period, each person only had one liter of drinking water per day", and his living conditions were miserable.
▲They spent 4 and a half years in a miserable environment, and the crew was malnourished, one had a gunshot wound to the foot, one had a stroke, and one had diabetes.
Cai Zhengyuan pointed out that since the hostages were later transferred to the mountain tribe, they had to reach the "specific location" through more dangerous land, and then chartered the plane to Guangzhou in the name of the United Nations humanitarian rescue group, and then returned to their countries and regions respectively. Fortunately, everything went smoothly in the end.
▲The crew members were finally relieved when they were able to come back alive.
was hijacked by pirates and rescued the fishing boat "NAHAM3" has been reported, and all walks of life in Taiwan are paying great attention. Mainstream newspapers published on the 24th reported the good news in the form of headlines. The family of Taiwanese crew member Shen Ruizhang expressed his gratitude to the relevant mainland departments for their kind help. "We thank the kind-hearted people who have always helped us."
24, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said in response to why the incident of hijacking fishing boats in Somalia was resolved after four and a half years that ensuring the safety of hostages is the primary consideration, making the rescue work more complicated and difficult.
"Rescuing hostages has never been an easy task. But no matter how difficult it is or how much patience is required, the Chinese government has the determination to take our compatriots home as much as possible." "People-oriented and diplomatic for the people" is the consistent purpose of the Chinese government, and China has always put the safety of the lives of the hijacked crew members first. China also extends its sincere gratitude to all institutions and personnel involved in the rescue.
No matter how bumpy the journey of life is, no matter how many hardships that cannot be spoken for outsiders have experienced, it is great to be able to go home safely in the end!
Behind those visible or invisible helping hands, there is respect and recognition of life, thank them!
Comprehensive reference news, Taiwan's China Times, Taiwan Dongsen News Cloud Report, related pictures are from Taiwan's China Times Electronic News, Tencent Pictures, Cai Zhengyuan's Facebook, copyright belongs to the original author)
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