Sentence examples for using kidnapping from inspiring English sources

Although it appeared unlikely that the popular response to Andrés Felipe's death would spill over into the 2002 vote, presidential candidates condemned the rebels today for using kidnapping victims as bargaining chips and to fill war chests with ransom money.

But it is clear that they have grown more clever and adept at using kidnapping as a tool of intimidation and publicity since the successful abduction of a Filipino hostage, who was released last Tuesday.

Using kidnapping, extortion and the drug trade to finance itself, and fear and coercion to control the population, the FARC won itself many enemies.

Attacks raise fears that Boko Haram is using kidnapped schoolgirls as suicide bombers.

Boko Haram uses kidnapping as a weapon of war, abducting thousands of women and girls and forcing young men and boys to fight in their ranks.

Although it seems like a terrible excuse, other people have used kidnapping to ineptly conceal a night of partying from their significant others.

The LRA, led by the enigmatic Kony, has committed massacres, mutilations and mass rapes; abducted thousands of adults and children; and used kidnapped youths as sex slaves and soldiers.

Cameroon's Minister of Communications Issa Tchiroma Bakary told the news agency that similar bombings have raised fears that the militants may be using kidnap victims to carryout the attacks and the aftermath makes it difficult to determine each youngster's age.

The rebel group uses kidnapping as a weapon in a guerrilla war it has been fighting against the Colombian state since the 1960s.

"The FARC used kidnapping, a horrible crime in violation of international law, to gain a measure of political recognition," said Adam Isacson, who follows Colombia's war for the Center for International Policy, a research organization in Washington.

Political violence continues to rise and left-wing guerrilla and right-wing paramilitary groups increasingly use kidnapping and extortion to finance their war with each other and the state.