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...these people were the ones doing the great work; we'd only written about them. And since heroes, by definition, are in the business of shaking things up, more than a few of ours challenged us. Leonard Van Baelen, a Belgian who pioneered the fair-trade coffee movement in Congo, and South African AIDS activist Zackie Achmat urged TIME to keep reporting on Africa and monitor access to antiretroviral medications for AIDS sufferers. We will; when the pages of your magazine start talking to you, you tend to listen. The most fun part of the night was watching heroes meet...
...death toll. The devastating quake killed around 1,900 people and injured at least 7,000. The rescue of a 21-year-old man from a wrecked beach resort by Japanese volunteers late Friday heartened workers, but hopes faded of finding further survivors. After the Carnage DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Corpses were left in the streets of Bunia for days after some 300 people were massacred, according to U.N. peacekeepers powerless to stop the killing. Rival tribes agreed to a cease-fire after France sent military observers to assess the possibility of deploying a multinational force. The conflict began after...
...million people, at least, have starved, been killed or died of disease since 1998 in the Congo's ongoing civil...
...that the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay so that a lower court could examine attorneys’ claims that he is mentally retarded. Juvenile offenders are another well-represented demographic on death row, and they remain eligible for execution only in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and the United States. The U.S. accounts for over half of the executions of juvenile offenders worldwide. On April 3, Scott A. Hain, who murdered at 17, was put to death in Oklahoma...
...with genocides in Europe, Russia, Cambodia, and Rwanda—or the 29 months of this century. This looting was not even the crime of the week. (That dubious award might go to the slaughter of three hundred and fifty people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.) Hundreds of Iraqi civilians died in the invasion of Iraq, not to mention the thousands who disappeared under Saddam Hussein’s despotic rule. Crime of the century? There is nothing poetic about this hyperbole; it is an outright insult to humanity...