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...Lloyd George called "the steel frame" that held the Raj together. The ICS officer was one part taxman, responsible for collecting the tolls and revenues due to the Raj from his district, and one part magistrate, settling his district's legal disputes, which might range from petty theft to murder. In addition, he was in charge of "forests, roads, schools, hospitals, fences, canals and agriculture," writes Gilmour. "And on top of all this, he also had to keep himself accessible, to allow people to come and sit on his verandah and 'pay their respects' and hand in their petitions...
...separatist, to life in prison; for his part in the Beslan school siege that left more than 330 people dead, many of them children; in Vladikavkaz, Russia. The only survivor out of 32 terrorists who seized the southern Russian school in Sept. 2004, Kulayev was found guilty of terrorism, murder and hostage taking. He admitted his involvement in the siege, but denied killing anyone...
...most famous kid at the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is Omar Khadr. A Canadian citizen, he was captured in Afghanistan in 2002 when he was only 15. The U.S. charges that he threw a grenade that killed a U.S. soldier. He faces a murder trial, which his lawyers are resisting, noting that he was a child at the time of the alleged crime. The U.S. has said Khadr was among the few juveniles being held at Guantánamo Bay. But a TIME analysis of data released earlier this month by the Pentagon indicates that Gitmo might...
...Katanga, a cursed province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaïre), Mukeya Ulumba, 28, recounts the epic losses she has suffered in recent months. Several of her relatives and neighbors were killed when antigovernment rebels stormed their village last November, moving from house to house in a murder spree that lasted for hours. Ulumba and her husband managed to flee with their four children, leaving behind their life's possessions, a ravaged community of torched houses and the bloodied corpses of family members and friends. Now Ulumba is struggling to save another life: that of her 6-month...
...playground of foreign armies. The country's first real election in 40 years is scheduled to take place this summer, and international troops have arrived to keep the peace. But the suffering of Congo's people continues. Fighting persists in the east, where rebel holdouts loot, rape and murder. The Congolese army, which was meant to be both symbol and protector in the reunited country, has cut its own murderous swath, carrying out executions and razing villages. Even deadlier are the side effects of war, the scars left by years of brutality that disfigure Congo's society and infrastructure...