Cruising sailors one year in captivity-Somali Government wants release

10:32 PM Fri 22 Oct 2010 GMT

'Chandlers under guard during interview with Channel 4 in November 2009 - now one year in captivity' .

As kidnapped cruising sailors Paul and Rachel Chandler today mark exactly one year in captivity after they were taken from their yacht on their way to Tanzania, the Somali Minister of Information said his government would renew their efforts to have the couple released. The problem, however, is that the Somali Government exercises little, if any control over Somali's gangs and pirates. Minister of Information Abdirahman Omar Osman said the continued captivity of Paul and Rachel Chandler is 'inhuman and un-Islamic.' He continued, 'Saturday marks one year since the deplorable capture and kidnap of Paul and Rachel Chandler by Somali ...

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by Des Ryan