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...DIED. CHEA VICHEA, 40, leader of a Cambodian garment workers' union aligned with the country's political opposition; of gunshot wounds in an attack while he was reading a newspaper near a Buddhist pagoda; in Phnom Penh. Chea Vichea is the latest victim in a series of at least four killings in the past year of individuals linked to political parties opposing Prime Minister Hun Sen. "It's very difficult to say it was not politically motivated," said Prince Norodom Sirivudh, secretary-general of the royalist FUNCINPEC party...
Four days later, after Gail Knisley, 62, was killed by a gunshot while riding in a car near that same strip of highway, Cable called the police. They matched the fragment in his van to the bullet that killed her. Authorities in Ohio last week said 14 recent shootings in the area were linked, five of them through ballistic evidence. All were clustered in a sevenmile patch of Interstate 270, a semirural community of cornfields and strip malls. The first, in May, hit a car that had been left without gas on the shoulder. The next, in August...
...some money saved, he volunteered with Medecins sans Frontieres, which placed him in Liberia. Seeing children with machine guns at the Monrovia airport, "I really thought I was flying into hell," he says. He worked hard, ignoring the mortar fire at sunrise and sunset as patients with serious gunshot wounds stumbled in. Whereas in the U.S. he would have taken care of 10 patients a day, here he was treating as many as 80. "This is a way for me to use all these things I learned and practice a more pure [form of medicine], the way I had intended...
...dozen people in what appear to be political vendettas. Last week, popular singer Touch Srey Nich, 24, was leaving a flower shop in Phnom Penh when four gunmen on motorbikes?two in military uniform?opened fire, killing Touch's 62-year-old mother and leaving the singer with multiple gunshot wounds to the face. (She is now in critical condition in a Bangkok hospital.) Touch is known by many as the "voice of Funcinpec"?the royalist opposition party?and her rendition of Funcinpec's anthem receives constant play on the party's radio station, Ta Prum. Just three days before...
...DIED. Akila al-Hashemi, 50, one of three women in the 25-member Iraqi Governing Council; of gunshot wounds suffered in an ambush five days earlier; in Baghdad. Al-Hashemi eschewed marriage for a career in Saddam Hussein's foreign service. She was the only member of the U.S.-backed government from the deposed regime and was tipped to become Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations. Her assailants have not been apprehended...