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The World's Kidnapping Epidemic |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Vera Laska |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2005 |
| Size: 968 Words, 6,197 Characters |
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RANSOM: THE UNTOLD STORY OF INTERNATIONAL KIDNAPPING
By Ann Hagedorn Auerbach
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1998
481 pages, $25.00
"Kashmir is the Garden of Eden!" herald alluring advertisements in quest of tourists. "Kashmir--India's Camelot!" trumpet others. The reality could not be further from the above. Kashmir today is more like Asia's Bosnia, with a mind-boggling and perplexing number of religious and political factions, many of them armed insurgents and rebels. In 1990-95, there were about 2,000 kidnappings in Kashmir, 50 percent of them deadly, 25 percent unresolved, and only 25 percent ending in the return of the victims.
Ransom devotes most of its pages to Kashmir, specifically to the fate of five men who were kidnapped there on July 4, 1995...
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... for chapters 1-4, 37-38, and a few in between.
In final judgment, all of the above criticisms are survivable. The book is a useful eye-opener and a revelation to Americans, especially the idealistic kind, who are dreaming of sunsets in the Himalayas or rare birds in the forest primeval. They should think twice before plunging into the unknown.
© 1999 International Journal on World Peace
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