Shen Jui-chang (沈瑞章), who survived four-and-a-half years of captivity at the hands of Somali pirates, on Wednesday praised the captain of the Naham 3 fishing boat, who was killed when the vessel was hijacked in the Indian Ocean, as "the bravest of men, who sacrificed himself for the sake of the crew."
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