i have been held hostage in a store robbery situation. Do you know anyone who's had this happen to them?
not personally but i know that they are usually held by belligerent parties or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement
Yeah. The guy who had me was trying to get $10,000 cash. The vault was locked so he couldn't get at it.
oh wow.. well in contemporary usage, someone is seized by a criminal abductor which sounds like what happened to you
Yeah, he had a gun so I didn't really want to try to get away. Do you know what's the earliest recorded hostage in history?
there is a long history of political and military use where generals would legally agree to hand over one or usually several hostaes in the custody of the other side as a sign of good faith
Wow that's interesting. I heard it happens a lot in Somalia.
Somalia
Somalia ( ; ; ), officially the Federal Republic of Somalia (; ), is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, the Gulf of Aden to the north, the Guardafui Channel and Somali Sea to the east, and Kenya to the southwest. Somalia has the longest coastline on Africa's mainland, and its terrain consists mainly of plateaus, plains and highlands. Climatically, hot conditions prevail year-round, with periodic monsoon winds and irregular rainfall.
All events that happen in Ukraine, starting from Maidan, are directed by those, who want to make our countries weak and make them quarrel. I hope you have not any doubts about this. They are successful in this — there is actually a civil war in/on (whatever you want) Ukraine, power is seized by oligarchs, who are ready to hit everyone disagreeing by tanks, hatred to Russians artificially incited. And, as you know, peaceful people become victims of war first. And if trying to