Word: extorts
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...history of religious tolerance. Bangladesh's Hindus, who constitute about 10% of the population of the predominantly Muslim nation, say they are increasingly being intimidated by gangs of Islamic fundamentalists, who attack them in their homes, warn them to pack up and leave for India and, for good measure, extort ransom from them. "The condition of religious minorities has become terrible under the present government," says Subrata Chowdhury, a Dhaka-based Hindu human-rights lawyer. The brutal attack on well-known intellectual Azad, a moderate Muslim who is an outspoken critic of Islamic fundamentalism, has also led many in Bangladesh...
...attempting to return to Kathmandu from western Nepal, and the Nepalese army had to escort nine British travelers driving back from Chitwan game park. While embassies hurriedly revised travel advisories, the United Nations warned that it would have to pull out of Nepal entirely if the Maoists continued to extort cash from aid groups, businesses and even schools across the country...
...days before, he had been drinking tea and cracking jokes with the pro-U.S. governor of the provincial capital, Gardez. Special-forces teams that operate out of a fortress near Gardez maintained a hands-off policy toward Jalani. They say he might have set up illegal roadblocks to extort money from travelers, as many local commanders do, but they don't regard him as a terrorist. Later, local security officials said, U.S. forces were surprised when orders came to target Jalani. During the three-hour air and ground assault, the wall of a house collapsed on the eight victims...
...days before, he had been drinking tea and cracking jokes with the pro-U.S. governor of the provincial capital, Gardez. Special-forces teams that operate out of a fortress near Gardez maintained a hands-off policy toward Jalani. They say he might have set up illegal roadblocks to extort money from travelers, as many local commanders do, but they don't regard him as a terrorist. Later, local security officials said, U.S. forces were surprised when orders came to target Jalani. During the three-hour air and ground assault, the wall of a house collapsed on the eight victims...
...average Indian voter may have learned to live with corruption. But many Indian businessmen, faced with extortion by bureaucrats and competitors using bribery to achieve unfair advantage, have not. Former CBI director turned antigraft campaigner Joginder Singh says his research shows that the typical Indian entrepreneur faces 65 different inspections from various officials before he can open shop. "And these officials are not there to help," says Singh, "but to extort." As a result, many enterprises shut down in their first few weeks or fail to get beyond the drawing board...