Abstract
A kidnap hideout and a siege situation are very different things. In the former, the kidnapped hostages are held in a secret place and their family or friends have to negotiate for their release through intermediaries or anonymous messages or telephone calls without knowing who they are talking to or where the victims are. The police are involved only indirectly in these negotiations. In a siege situation, however, where both the kidnappers and their hostages are surrounded in a known location, it is the police who handle the negotiations.
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Notes and References
Caroline Moorehead, Fortune’s Hostages (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979) pp. ix–xi.
For fuller accounts of the handling of the Schleyer case see Richard Clutter-buck, Kidnap and Ransom (London: Faber and Faber, 1978) and Caroline Moorehead Fortunes Hostages, passim.
Sir Robert Mark, ‘Kidnapping, Terrorism and the News Media in Britain’ in Royal United Services Institute, Ten Years of Terrorism (London: RUSI, 1979) p. 76.
The story of these operations is told more fully in Richard Clutterbuck’s Riot and Revolution in Singapore and Malaya (London: Faber and Faber, 1973) pp. 252–7. The author was a member of the Director of Operations Staff throughout the ‘Political Commissar’ operation and at the start of the Hor Lung Operation. Nine years later (1967) he returned to Malaya and met Hor Lung and some of his comrades while doing research for that book. Hor Lung was still living in Johore, to all appearances quite openly, running a prosperous business capitalized by the substantial reward he received. His erstwhile comrades seemed to bear him no ill will, as they now recognized that by 1958 their war had been lost and that, but for his action, most of the 160 he led out of the jungle would almost certainly otherwise had died there.
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Clutterbuck, R. (1983). Kidnapping. In: The Media and Political Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06580-6_12
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