Hostage
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For 15 years, Turkmenistan was held
hostage
to the personality cult of former leader Saparmurat Niyazov, who styled himself Turkmenbashi (“father of the Turkmen”).
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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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