The extremists demanded as much as $50,000 for the release of individual captives, but often accepted lower sums.
However, a strong nationalist movement began seeking a political union of the Naga tribes, and extremists demanded outright secession from the Indian union.
During a famine in 2011, the extremists demanded thousands of dollars from aid agencies in return for allowing them to work in their areas; it also often killed aid workers, or kept the food for itself, or burned it.
"These people are motivated by one thing: to kill everything that we stand for". Wilders's transgression, according to the extremists demanding his death, is his insulting of Muslims in the Netherlands, with frequent denunciations of Islam.
Ibrahim tried to protect her, he said, but she came out and confronted the IS extremists, demanding an explanation.
Government policy should not be subordinated to extremist demands or a minority of terrorists.
"In Pakistan, civil society is likely to cave in to extremist demands for changes in law and social conduct.
Instead, the president has allowed the debate to become dominated by excessive paranoia about deficits and by extremist demands to shrink government in a radical and inappropriate manner.
Many saw his appointment, and his elevation to the presidency in 1982, as an effort by Mrs. Gandhi to appease the extremist demands in Punjab, which culminated in the storming of the Sikhs' holiest shrine, the Golden Temple in Amritsar, by Indian troops in 1984 and Mrs. Gandhi's assassination by Sikh bodyguards four months later.
