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.
well somalia does have the longest coastline on Africa's mainland, and its terrain consists mainly of plateaus, plans and highlands
Yes, and they can take whole ships hostage sometimes for very large ransoms.
Piracy off the coast of Somalia
Piracy off the coast of Somalia occurs in the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel and Somali Sea, in Somalian territorial waters and other areas. It was initially a threat to international fishing vessels, expanding to international shipping since the second phase of the Somali Civil War, around 2000.
Fishing communities responded by forming armed groups to deter the invaders by hijacking commercial vessels. But this grew into a lucrative trade, with large ransom payments, and financial gain (piracy) was clearly the
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