[OPINION] Is the world’s deadliest profession also among the most violent?


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'Brutality in distant-water fishing fleets – and the connection to forced labor on these vessels – has been an open secret for a while' Crimes like this don’t often happen on land. A 10-minute slow-motion slaughter captured by a cellphone camera shows a group of unarmed men at sea, flailing in the water, shot and killed one by one, after which the culprits pose for celebratory selfies. The only thing more shocking than the footage was the government inaction that followed. The case shows the challenge of prosecuting crimes on the high seas and the reason violence offshore often occurs...