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Johann Hari: You are being lied to about pirates - Johann Hari - Commentators - The Independent

'Once they had a ship, the pirates elected their captains, and made all their decisions collectively, without torture. '

'The independent Somalian news site WardheerNews found 70 per cent "strongly supported the piracy as a form of national defence". '

'Many ordinary people believed it was false: pirates were often saved from the gallows by supportive crowds. '

'Just before he was hanged in Charleston, South Carolina, he said: "What I did was to keep me from perishing. '

'And at the end of months or years of this, you were often cheated of your wages. '

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