Being a hostage is nothing like being a prisoner. At any given moment, hostages could be dead, injured, tortured, or raped, and we are still forced to imagine the worst, because we just don't know. This crime affects not only the hostages themselves, not only their loved ones, but every single person who worries about their fate. It's not just the hostage-taking itself, but the uncertainty it forces onto everyone, that makes it such a brutal act of terror.
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