Word: rana
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...must dodge rebels' bullets each day or face the wrath of a mob led by angry parents who have just lost a child to a big cat. The voices of those in the field should have been heard in your story. They are the true heroes. DEVENDRA S. RANA Kathmandu, Nepal...
...dodge rebels' bullets each day, or face the wrath of a mob led by angry parents who have just lost a son or a daughter to a big cat. The voices of those in the field should have been in your story. They are the true heroes. Devendra S. Rana Kathmandu, Nepal
...women do have a few places to turn. The Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, a project run by Iraq's Workers' Communist Party, is hiding three women in a safe house hundreds of miles from their families. One of them is a 16-year-old girl named Rana who was raped by her neighbor last April in the city of Nasiriyah. When her family discovered what had happened, her brothers decided to kill her, since she was no longer a virgin. A cousin who was aware of the plan took Rana to a nearby Italian military base...
...stashed. Then Shrestha stepped forward. He briefed his successors on his long-forgotten investigation, dug up the 28-year-old files and sat in on Sobhraj's interrogation. The police are now preparing a case they hope will, for the first time, convict Sobhraj of murder. Superintendent Kuber Singh Rana hails Shrestha's "compelling" investigation, saying, "The police have almost nothing to do today. The files establish who the culprit is." Shrestha says merely that it was his duty "to do everything I could not to leave this crime unsolved...
...Despite the fact that he is now sharing a 3-m by 3-m cell with up to five inmates, 59-year-old Sobhraj is "polite, calm and confident that nothing is going to happen to him," says Superintendent Rana. Shrestha, however, is convinced that this time there is no way out even for the master escapologist. "I saw him and he saw me and I saw something click in him, some fear, some guilt," he says. "Everything in life comes full circle, even for criminals. We could never afford to travel abroad to get him. But, eventually, he came...