Pirates, terrorists, distributors of weapons of mass destruction, tyrants who engage in genocide — all are certainly what Elizabethan English jurist Edward Coke, echoing Cicero’s ringing phrase hostis humani generis, would call “enemies of the human race.”

For over 2,000 years, piracy has been recognized as a crime against civilization and thus pirates could be captured by anyone, anywhere, and brought to justice.

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