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Most places, where kidnappings happen often, have the same result: victims end up dead regardless of a paid ransom and not notifying police. The only place wher
by chaostheory 8y ago
Most places, where kidnappings happen often, have the same result: victims end up dead regardless of a paid ransom and not notifying police. The only place where most victims end up alive and unscathed once the victims' families pay the ransoms is the Philippines. Not totally sure why. Maybe it's because most of the kidnappers are professional soldiers instead of random gangs?
- robbiep 8y agothe article states the opposite: 9% of those who don't have K&R insurance come to some form of grief vs. 2% of those with K&R insurance (worldwide stats, assumably?)
- chaostheory 8y agoMaybe they also group this together with kidnappings by relatives for a financial scam? That would explain better treatment in the stats. (imo this should also be treated separately, though not sure when we don't have access to the data.) On a related note, kidnappings in the West will also probably skew the data since most of it is done by divorced parents who don't custody. Rape also has a much larger stigma outside of the West. That aspect of the kidnapping may be hidden due to culture. I'm also very unfamiliar with kidnappings in India and the surrounding regions. I just know that the Philippines is special place when it comes to kidnapping; victims were rarely harmed in any way as long as the ransom demands were met - after negotiation of course. The exception happens when terrorists in the southern most region are the kidnappers.