Expulsion leaders forced victims to commit reciprocal expulsions to free hostages

Evidence

In the article, Vasvija Mulasalihovic, 39, is quoted as saying that the leader of the expulsions, Vojkan Djurkovic, told her and other women whose sons, brothers, and husbands were being taken away that they should to go to Tuzla (in Bosnian-government controlled territory) and attain the expulsion of 150 Serb families. Upon doing that, they would get their loved ones back. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 541

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: A hostage must commit the very atrocity done to her family to buy their release — a powerful moral-trap plot engine for fiction.