Word: ganges
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...this small central African country's population - who are expected to face trial for the 1994 genocide that wiped out an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, moderate Hutu and political opponents of the former regime. Spectators squatting on a termite mound lean forward as Ntirushwamaboko describes how he and a gang of others corralled and slaughtered a group of Tutsi near the house of his victim, a 29-year-old farmer named Gonzaga Twagiramungu. Among the dead was his victim's 1-year-old son. "I'm asking for forgiveness from all Rwandans and the government of Rwanda, but most importantly...
...succumbs to whispery-voiced, almost catatonic self-pity as he tries to relate to courtiers. Half of them are (as he is) contemplating suicide, while the rest are plotting desperate escapes. There has been some criticism of director Oliver Hirschbiegel's Oscar-nominated film for humanizing Hitler and his gang, but that's nonsense. Because, of course, they were human. The world has since known dictators just as insane. And we can be sure their acolytes exhibited the same range of ugly behavior (denial, cynicism, narcissism) shown in this film. The inclusion of a few innocents and dissidents hardly brightens...
Prosecutors contend that 22-year-old Io Nachtwey was raped, stabbed to death and then thrown in the Charles River to send a message to her friends, who had refused to join the robbery gang allegedly run by the defendants...
...Elliot Weinstein, attorney for Ismael Vasquez, told jurors that there was no gang, and that his client was no longer at the scene at the time of the murder, according...
...pressed charges against her alleged assailants, becoming an icon in the fight to eliminate such barbaric tribal customs. (TIME named her one of Asia's Heroes last year for her defiance.) A conventional court sentenced six men to death in August 2002 for ordering and carrying out the gang rape, and Mai used the $8,300 awarded to her by the government to open a village school...