Consensus ?
Don't know about any concensus but if you try anything like escaping you are provoking the situation and there may be an unpleasant response from them - even to shoot at you.
Surely the best is to try to avoid the situation by travelling up the other route, travelling in convoy and or arranging a police escort.
You must be prepared to give up "everything" if necessary. We kept some cash in a wallet available and some hidden which we could also give whilst keeping the bulk of cash hidden elsewhere. You can always get more cash or water, another life is more difficult.
Having said all that and over dramatising a bit, we have spoken to lots of people who have travelled both routes as well as the tourist police and criminal police. Most have had no problems and the rest have only had to give water. Nadine and David were extremely unlucky which is sad for them but they only got into bad trouble when they tried to drive away. In the heat of the moment who knows what we would have done in their situation? We are really glad he is on the mend.
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