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...battle-eight members of Giegie's platoon have been injured, two with bullets still buried in them. There are other sacrifices, too. Every aspect of N.P.A. life is regulated, including romance. It took almost a year before communist officials granted Giegie and her betrothed, a 25-year-old rebel called Dods, permission to date. Guided by a document called "On the Proletarian Relationship of the Sexes," they must court for another year before marriage. Premarital sex is forbidden...
...what happened? For the first time since the war began, U.S. forces had locked down the Baghdad slum known as Sadr City, haven to the militias and death squads loyal to rebel Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Looking for a missing U.S. soldier, the Americans cordoned off much of Sadr City, preventing hundreds of killers from slipping out. On Oct. 24, the daily murder rate fell roughly 50%. It stayed down for more than a week, until Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki demanded that the U.S. end the blockade around Sadr City. After the U.S. pulled...
...Congo. His pictures on the following pages were taken mostly in 2006, as Congo's 60 million people prepared for the country's first free elections in four decades. Officially, war ended in 2003. But the aftershocks of one of Africa's most devastating conflagrations go on. Rebel militias continue to rape and murder, especially in the country's East. Government troops commit atrocities as well. With the election complete, it's comforting to think that the world has done its part and can now leave Congo to get on with righting itself. But the country still desperately needs help...
...publicly apologized for rights abuses committed by Thaksin's government, and released 58 suspected militants from prison. He has already begun to institute various points of the Langkawi plan, reopening the SBPAC and announcing the formation of a special economic zone to boost development in the impoverished region. The rebel representative who provided the documents to TIME says Surayud's moves won't be enough to restore peace. "They must set up the tribunal and grant us amnesty," he says. "Without this, the talks would go nowhere...
...lives of all three characters, as Murray observes, are “stymied now by the very lack of smallness…by the absence of any limitations against which to rebel...