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In the Mediterranean Sea alone, 3,200 people have perished, and in the Andaman Sea, just east of the Bay of Bengal, thousands of migrants have been stranded on boats with nowhere to land, or have been held hostage by their traffickers.

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I come to also look at this as this fear that we have as men, this fear that just has us paralyzed, holding us hostage to this man box.

They were holding something like 700 people hostage.

They'd released a bunch of people, but they still had about 700 people hostage.

So when they had a look at it afterward, there were only a couple of people who'd apparently been shot, by the hostage takers or by the police forces trying to deal with the situation.

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