CCTV-7-Dokumentarfilmaufnahmen des Hainan Grenzverteidigungskorps 1. Küstenwache Flottille, die vietnamesische Piraten im Südchinesischen Meer einbeziehen, 8. Januar 2005
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CCTV-7-Dokumentarfilmaufnahmen des Hainan Grenzverteidigungskorps 1. Küstenwache Flottille, die vietnamesische Piraten im Südchinesischen Meer einbeziehen, 8. Januar 2005
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Context
**Event**
[According to the source I found](https://user.guancha.cn/main/content?id=1077584&comments-container) along with my translation of the video footage:
In around June 2004, several vietnamese fishermen began stealing and hijacking chinese fishing boats; Evantually, they even managed to get small arms and grenades and became pirates.
Due to the pirates escaping to vietnamese maritime territory every time the Border Defense Coast Guard arrived, they were unable to apprehend them. In January 6, 2005, flotilla commander Colonel Tan Jinchun(谭进春) developed a plan for 60 coast guardsmen to pretend to be fishermen on fishing boats to make it easier to catch the pirates(basically a sting operation). On January 8, 2005, the vietnamese pirates saw the „fishing boats“, and began opening fire with submachine guns and throwing a grenade(0:33)
Since the location was rather close from vietnamese maritime territory, making an escape extremely easy, the coast guardsmen chose not to reveal their identities until they were 20 meters away, at which point they returned fire; at the same time, coast guard speedboat 85 arrived to flank the pirates(6:32), opening fire. 2 other pirate boats(8:23) managed to escape into vietnamese territory, though coast guardsmen on patrol boats managed to board the pirate boat mostly seen in the footage(7:18
), arresting the pirates and taking it back to the coast guard base on the 9th.
In total, 8 pirates were captured, 8 pirates were killed(7 on the boat they managed to capture, 1 on a boat which fled away); 1 submachine gun, 1 pistol, 88 rounds of ammunition along with axes and metal sticks were seized. According to the investigation, these pirates had attacked chinese fishermen over 4 times; All 8 captured pirates were given life sentences without parole.
Coast guardsman Sergeant 1st Class Wei Hanzhong(韦汉忠; you can see him in an interview 0:22) was awarded a 1st class meritorious service medal for heroism during the shootout. He recieved an honorable discharge in 2022 with the rank of Master Sgt 1st class.
**Unit**
Before 2018, border defense were part of something called ministry of public security active service forces, which were basically military units(manned by people’s armed police) under the ministry of public security. before 2013, the border defense coast guard(or pre-2013 china coast guard) were under the border defense corps until it was merged with other agencies to form the current china coast guard.
As for the border defense corps itself, in 2018 it was disbanded and replaced with the national immigration administration; all it’s soldiers became civilian police officers instead under the national immigration administration
**Basic summary of documentary clip(all names are disclosed by the documentary and are non-confidential):**
0:00-0:15 – Pirate boat heads towards fishing ship(with coast guardsmen)
0:16-0:32 – 1st Lt Ouyang Shenghua(欧阳胜华) and Sgt 1st Class Wei Hanzhong describe a grenade being thrown at them and the explosion in interview
0:33-0:41 – pirates throw grenade at ship(and explosion)
0:50-0:52 – flotilla chief of staff Lt. Col Li Youhua(李佑华) fires a warning shot; pirates open fire with small arms
1:02-1:11 – order is given to return fire
1:41-1:46 – flotilla commander Tan Jinchun orders speedboat 85 to provide backup
1:47 -1:57 – coast guardsman staff sgt Hu Wenming(胡文明) in interview stating they were orderd to go at full speed
1:59-2:30 – coast guard speedboat begins to head to the scene
2:33-2:41 – coast guard continues to return fire; pirate boat attempts to escape
2:55-3:29 – recon team staff member 1st Lt Zhou Kainian(周开年) in an interview saying how a 50 year old fisherman on the boat grabbed a shotgun from the coast guardsmen and claimed he „wanted revenge“
3:30-3:40 – Lt Zhou continues to explain how another fisherman(shown in the footage) claimed that the pirates destroyed his ship and that it was time for him(the fisherman) to destroy the pirate ship
3:40-3:52 – the coast guardsmen and pirates continue their shootout; pirates throw another grenade
3:53-4:16 – flotilla chief of staff Lt. Col. Li Youhua explaining how he blocked the pirates from escaping
4:17-4:54 – 3 hours later after initial engagement; pirate boat attempts escape; it continues opening fire to prevent the coast guard from conducting VBSS
4:57-5:25 – documentary says the pirates are several nautical miles away from being able to escape, while backup still has 36 nautical miles
5:38 – backup is 18 NM away
6:00-6:08 – Speedboat 85(coast guard speedboat) arrives
6:14- 7:12 – Staff Sgt Hu Wenming explains how the pirates began shooting at the coast guard speedboat instead, which was hit twice, along with footage of the speedboat flanking the pirates; he also explains how he boarded the pirate vessel, along with that the pirate captain was lying down to drive the pirate boat, using his legs to steer it so that snipers could not take him out
7:15-7:28 – coast guardsmen board the pirate boat
7:29-8:16 – Commissar of the Hainan border defense corps Colonel Zhang Shaozhen(张少珍) explains how flotilla commander Colonel Tan called him that they had defeated the pirates.
8:23-8:55 – the other two pirate boats enter vietnamese territory; the chase is ordered to stop
9:02-10:03 -January 9; the captured pirate boat is towed back to base; it is inspected by the coast guard with the guns being seized and the pirates arrestted.