Word: ismail
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Khairurrazi Ismail was always going to die young. He said so himself. When his father passed away, the 18-year-old had wrapped the old man's body in a white cotton shroud, then taken the remaining material to his mother. "Keep this safe for me," he told her. "I'll need it soon." Sure enough, 17 days later, Khairurrazi's corpse was lowered into a muddy trench in a village cemetery in Peusangan, an area near Bireun in northern Aceh that has been ravaged by conflict since the Indonesian military last week launched its massive campaign to crush...
...Razali Ismail, the United Nations special envoy to Burma, is a devoted practitioner of quiet diplomacy. His subtle prodding was widely credited with persuading Burma's military junta to free, in May last year, the Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest. So it was a surprise when, in late April, the Malaysian diplomat told reporters in Bangkok he was "perplexed and disappointed" with the generals' refusal to grant him a visa for the past six months so that he could try to foster dialogue between the two sides: "I really cannot understand...
...really cannot understand why I'm being denied access." RAZALI ISMAIL, UN special envoy to Burma, on the refusal of the country's hermetic, repressive military junta to grant him a visa for the past six months...
EVACUATED. ALI ISMAIL ABBAS, 12, Iraqi burn victim who suffered the loss of both arms after a U.S. bomb hit his home near Baghdad; to a burn-treatment center in Kuwait City, where he underwent surgery to place skin grafts over his burns. The boy, who gained worldwide attention after a photo of him was published in TIME, is expected to remain at the center, where doctors hope to fit him with prosthetic arms...
Events as vast and unwieldy as the war in Iraq often hit home hardest when seen through the experience of a single person. In last week's issue, TIME ran a photograph of a young boy named Ali Ismail Abbas, who had suffered excruciating burns and the loss of both arms after a missile hit his home in a southern suburb of Baghdad. It was not known whether any of Ali's family members had survived; the only relative tending to him at the al Kindi hospital was an aunt. The photo of the armless boy evoked distress and concern...