[enko]

> during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami when broken hazardous waste containers eventually found their way onto Somali shores leaving a large majority of the population suffering from various illnesses, such as radiation sickness

This sounds extremely doubtful. Tsunami-borne hazardous waste containers breaking up in Somalia en masse? Radioactive waste!? And a "large majority" of Somalians were poisoned by this?

I don't usually like to play the wiki-pedant but a very big [citation needed] on that.

[eaurouge]

The dumping of hazardous waste on third world countries isn't exactly news. The given example may (or may not) be inaccurate but this is something that's been going on for decades.