International convention for suppression of unlawful acts against safety of maritime navigation (SUA Convention)
Why this convention was required. Oct 7, 1985, Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro hijacked by 4 armed terrorist. With some 100 mostly elderly passengers on board, in Egyptian waters. The hijackers demanded that Israel to free 50 Palestinian prisoners. To prove their determination, they shot and killed a disabled American tourist, 69-year-old Leon Klinghoffer, and…