Word: graving
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...years that followed, though, the aggressive response didn't come. The company has never publicly criticized the troops attached to its operations nor asked that they be replaced. The mass grave that might be sitting on its partner's property has apparently never been investigated. And as claims of atrocities have increased, so have activists doubts about the company's goodwill. A long list of questions was e-mailed to ExxonMobil for this story, but the company said it could not respond while the ilrf case is in litigation. Instead it sent a half-page statement: "ExxonMobil condemns the violation...
...Carolyn's killers planned to pray to another Hindu deity that November night, the fearsome Kali, goddess of destruction. A dilapidated temple devoted to Kali lies a few hundred meters from where Carolyn was strangled, just beyond her grave, which was finally discovered by police a few weeks ago after a tip-off. There, in a lean-to fashioned from a corrugated-iron roof and four wooden posts, the only decoration a single spear stuck into the raw earth, Shanmugavela and the three other killers conducted a gruesome set of rites upon Carolyn's corpse, an otherworldly ceremony they believed...
...brain tumor. The tabloids had said it many times before, and George had denied it, but this was Reuters. Thinking only of how Freddie Mercury finally admitted he had AIDS the day before he died, I was convinced that the quiet Beatle had one foot in the grave. He had dodged throat cancer and a lunatic’s knife, but at 58, he had finally lost his battle with cancer...
...slavers, its animals by poachers and its mineral wealth by miners, is now yielding up its cultural heritage. Across the continent, artifacts are looted from museums, from universities and straight from the ground. Most of the objects--ancient terra-cotta and stone figures, brass and bronze sculptures, wooden grave markers, masks and doors--end up in the U.S. and Europe, where collectors prize such items as the 16th century Benin bronze castings whose technical finesse rivals works produced by Europeans of the same era. Among the most sought-after items are figurines from Kawu, with their distinctive triangular eyes...
...West's growing enthusiasm for African objects that has placed many of them in jeopardy. Most of Mali's archaeological sites, including graves built into the cliffs along the World Heritage-listed Bandiagara escarpment, have been looted. Ethiopia is struggling to protect its oldest silver Coptic Christian crosses and medieval manuscripts. Since 1970, illegal traders in Kenya and Tanzania have carted off hundreds of vigango, or Swahili wooden grave markers. When fighting erupted in the Somali capital of Mogadishu in 1991, one of the first casualties was the National Museum. Within weeks many of its prized exhibits, including ancient Egyptian...