On April 3, 1919, the Cossack warlord ordered to shoot and take hostages for the slightest display of opposition.

This was the first announcement in Latvia of a threat to shoot hostages.

We capture airplanes and shoot hostages.

There was well-founded dread that the captors, mostly student militants, might start shooting hostages to dramatize their demand for the Shah.

And for another, theway they shoot hostages, they wouldn't wait more than a minute ortwo before they started shooting farmers.

Russian officials say militants shot hostages as they ran, and the military fired back.

The hijackers then started shooting hostages, starting with Tamar Artzi, an Israeli woman.

The following morning Mahmud threatened to start shooting hostages if the aircraft was not refueled and the Dubai authorities finally agreed.

Talia manages to shoot and arrest him before he murders several hostages.

And the people running this show didn't seem like the types who would need much excuse to shoot hostages.