Hmm... This reminds me of a country that kept a strip of people under a blockade, while calculating the calories they need to stay just above starvation level, and then gave permits to the people of the stripe to work like slaves for them.
Anyways the hostages aren't slaves there. They're bargaining chips, and it seems like one side of this conflict doesn't value them.
Looks like the soldier was far away from them, and they weren't even looking in his direction. What could they have done to provoke him? And why did he shoot the person who came back to help later?
Let your imagination run wild and lets see what you can come up with.
There's a loud ad for "Duolingo super" that has a high chance of showing up after every lesson. Also using Firefox with Ublock installed, and it's still here.
Snap sucks, but not for the reason OP stated. There's a decillion reasons for why Snaps suck, why make up a reason that applies to other formats that are actually good?