Alexander family hostage crisis
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On the evening of 18 November 1997, South African military attaché McGill Alexander and his family were taken hostage for approximately twenty-one hours by wanted fugitive Chen Chin-hsing [zh] in their home in Taipei, Taiwan.[1] Chen forcibly entered the Alexanders' home at approximately 7:00 pm (Taiwan time) that evening. Chen was captured the following day and executed roughly two years later.