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  • Shah Jaha Kabir Ali Shaikh, 18, who was burned by mobs of Hindu rioters on February 28, recovers inside a refugee camp inside a mosque in Ahmedabad, India, May 12, 2002. Thousands of people who fled their homes are still living in squalid conditions since a wave of revenge killings and clashes erupted in late February.
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  • Family members of a child and guard who were killed during a late night looting of an orphanage sit next to the blood spattered entrance way to the school in Huambo, Angola. It is a common scene in Angola's brutal 26 year-civil which has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. (photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Family members of a child and guard who were killed during a late night looting of an orphanage sit next to the blood spattered entrance way to the school in Huambo, Angola. It is a common scene in Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war which has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Dheeraj Kohli, who was killed while working as a police officer by an unknown militant in a grenade attack on   is cremated March 31, in Jammu. At least 10 were killed and 18 injured after two militants went on a shooting spree and threw grenades in a temple and shopping district of the Indian state. Nearly a dozen militant groups are fighting New Delhi's rule in Jammu and Kashmir. India accuses Pakistan of arming and training Islamic militants. Pakistan denies the charge and says it only offers moral and diplomatic support to Kashmiri separatists. (Ami Vitale).
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  • The relatives and neighbors of Muzzamil Ahmad, a 19-year-old Muslim, who was killed when he was hit by an Indian security force vehicle move his body from a street in Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir.  Nearly 1,000 people blocked traffic, threw stones and shouted anti-India slogans after he was killed.
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  • The relatives and neighbors of Muzzamil Ahmad, a 19-year-old Muslim who was killed when he was hit by an Indian security force vehicle, mourn his death in Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir September 28.
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  • Cosmos Mbawala stands with his wife Halima Salumu inside their hut where they stood when they heard the screams of their son, Cosmos Chakoma, 12, after he was killed by a lion in Hingawali village near Lindi, Tanzania. Cosmos, 12,  had just gone to see a lion that was killed in a nearby village that villagers had thought was responsible for killing others earlier in the month when he was attacked by this lion.  (Ami Vitale)
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  • Cosmos Mbawala stands with his wife Halima inside their hut where they stood when they heard the screams of their son, Cosmos Chakoma, 12, after he was killed by a lion in Hingawali village near Lindi, Tanzania. Cosmos, 12,  had just gone to see a lion that was killed in a nearby village that villagers had thought was responsible for killing others earlier in the month when he was attacked by this lion.  (Ami Vitale)
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  • This is one of the villages that was established after the Moroccans threatened to kill anyone possessing manuscripts in Timbuktu. The Kati family escaped and came to this place along the Niger river and has been living here since. Recently, a library was established in Timbuktu and the hidden manuscripts were brought back to be catalogued and preserved in the Fondo Kati Library.
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  • Villagers, many of whom lost their homes, crops, and even a man who was killed by elephants perform a "puja" or holy ceremony to the Hindu God Lord Ganesha who is half human and half elephant to ask him to protect the village from real elephants coming back and causing more destruction  near Tezpur in Assam, eastern India January 6, 2004.  Villagers have been forced to stay up lighting fires, banging tin cans, throwing firecrackers to keep elephants from destroying their crops, homes and somtimes killing people. India and its sacred elephants are threatened by the deforestation caused by encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. (Ami Vitale)

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  • Cosmos Mbawala stands with his wife Halima Salumu inside their hut where they stood when they heard the screams of their son, Cosmos Chakoma, 12, after he was killed by a lion in Hingawali village near Lindi, Tanzania. Cosmos, 12,  had just gone to see a lion that was killed in a nearby village that villagers had thought was responsible for killing others earlier in the month when he was attacked by this lion.  (Ami Vitale)
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  • A stray dog that was road kill is used as bait to catch lions in the village of Simana, Tanzania. (ami Vitale)
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  • RUKUM DISTRICT, NEPAL, APRIL 15, 2004:  Children carry their siblings in a small village in Rukum District April 15, 2004. Ill-equipped security forces in politically unstable Nepal are unable to control  Maoist rebels, who continue to abduct thousands of villagers for forcible indoctrination and military training.  The Maoists mainly target students, teachers and youths. The victims are usually released after a few days of indoctrination, unless they actively resist the "training attempts," in which case the rebels torture or sometimes kill them. Maoist insurgents have capture most of the Western part of Nepal in their attempt to make it a Communist State. Analysts and diplomats estimate there about 15,000-20,000 hard-core Maoist fighters, including many women, backed by 50,000 "militia".  In their remote strongholds, they collect taxes and have set up civil administrations, and people's courts. They also raise money by taxing villagers and foreign trekkers.  They are tough in Nepal's rugged terrain, full of thick forests and deep ravines and the 150,000 government soldiers are not enough to combat this growing movement that models itself after the Shining Path of Peru. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KUPWARA, KASHMIR - AUGUST 18: The body of a militant killed by Indian Army soldiers along the Line of Control in the Keran Sector of the Kupwara District in the Indian held state of Jammu and  Kashmir is displayed for media August 18, 2002.  Indian Army troops killed 7 militants early yesterday morning as they attempted to infiltrate from Pakistan along the Line of Control. They carried with them a large quantity of ammunition, arms and jehadi literature.   (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • RUKUM DISTRICT, NEPAL, APRIL 17, 2004: A  Nepalese villager punds wheat in Rukum District April 17, 2004. Ill-equipped security forces in politically unstable Nepal are unable to control  Maoist rebels, who continue to abduct thousands of villagers for forcible indoctrination and military training.  The Maoists mainly target students, teachers and youths. The victims are usually released after a few days of indoctrination, unless they actively resist the "training attempts," in which case the rebels torture or sometimes kill them. Maoist insurgents have capture most of the Western part of Nepal in their attempt to make it a Communist State. Analysts and diplomats estimate there about 15,000-20,000 hard-core Maoist fighters, including many women, backed by 50,000 "militia".  In their remote strongholds, they collect taxes and have set up civil administrations, and people's courts. They also raise money by taxing villagers and foreign trekkers.  They are tough in Nepal's rugged terrain, full of thick forests and deep ravines and the 150,000 government soldiers are not enough to combat this growing movement that models itself after the Shining Path of Peru. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • RUKUM DISTRICT, NEPAL, APRIL 18, 2004:  A Nepalese child helps his grandmother cook next to a fire in Rukum District April 18, 2004. Most of Nepal has no electricity, plumbing or infrastructure and ill-equipped security forces in the politically unstable country are unable to control  Maoist rebels, who continue to abduct thousands of villagers for forcible indoctrination and military training.  The Maoists mainly target students, teachers and youths. The victims are usually released after a few days of indoctrination, unless they actively resist the "training attempts," in which case the rebels torture or sometimes kill them. Maoist insurgents have capture most of the Western part of Nepal in their attempt to make it a Communist State. Analysts and diplomats estimate there about 15,000-20,000 hard-core Maoist fighters, including many women, backed by 50,000 "militia".  In their remote strongholds, they collect taxes and have set up civil administrations, and people's courts. They also raise money by taxing villagers and foreign trekkers.  They are tough in Nepal's rugged terrain, full of thick forests and deep ravines and the 150,000 government soldiers are not enough to combat this growing movement that models itself after the Shining Path of Peru. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • RUKUM DISTRICT, NEPAL, APRIL 17, 2004:  Nepalese villagers gossip next to the small local shop in Rukum District April 17, 2004. Ill-equipped security forces in politically unstable Nepal are unable to control  Maoist rebels, who continue to abduct thousands of villagers for forcible indoctrination and military training.  The Maoists mainly target students, teachers and youths. The victims are usually released after a few days of indoctrination, unless they actively resist the "training attempts," in which case the rebels torture or sometimes kill them. Maoist insurgents have capture most of the Western part of Nepal in their attempt to make it a Communist State. Analysts and diplomats estimate there about 15,000-20,000 hard-core Maoist fighters, including many women, backed by 50,000 "militia".  In their remote strongholds, they collect taxes and have set up civil administrations, and people's courts. They also raise money by taxing villagers and foreign trekkers.  They are tough in Nepal's rugged terrain, full of thick forests and deep ravines and the 150,000 government soldiers are not enough to combat this growing movement that models itself after the Shining Path of Peru. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • RUKUM DISTRICT, NEPAL, APRIL 24, 2004:  A child works in a tea stall in a small village in Rukum District April 24, 2004. Nepal is one of the poorest countries and most children are forced to be a part of the labor work force.  Ill-equipped security forces in politically unstable Nepal are unable to control  Maoist rebels, who continue to abduct thousands of villagers for forcible indoctrination and military training.  The Maoists mainly target students, teachers and youths. The victims are usually released after a few days of indoctrination, unless they actively resist the "training attempts," in which case the rebels torture or sometimes kill them. Maoist insurgents have capture most of the Western part of Nepal in their attempt to make it a Communist State. Analysts and diplomats estimate there about 15,000-20,000 hard-core Maoist fighters, including many women, backed by 50,000 "militia".  In their remote strongholds, they collect taxes and have set up civil administrations, and people's courts. They also raise money by taxing villagers and foreign trekkers.  They are tough in Nepal's rugged terrain, full of thick forests and deep ravines and the 150,000 government soldiers are not enough to combat this growing movement that models itself after the Shining Path of Peru. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • RUKUM DISTRICT, NEPAL, APRIL 20, 2004:  Nepalese children stan in a government school yard in Rukum  district April 20, 2004. Ill-equipped security forces in politically unstable Nepal are unable to control  Maoist rebels, who continue to abduct thousands of villagers for forcible indoctrination and military training.  The Maoists mainly target students, teachers and youths. The victims are usually released after a few days of indoctrination, unless they actively resist the "training attempts," in which case the rebels torture or sometimes kill them. Maoist insurgents have capture most of the Western part of Nepal in their attempt to make it a Communist State. Analysts and diplomats estimate there about 15,000-20,000 hard-core Maoist fighters, including many women, backed by 50,000 "militia".  In their remote strongholds, they collect taxes and have set up civil administrations, and people's courts. They also raise money by taxing villagers and foreign trekkers.  They are tough in Nepal's rugged terrain, full of thick forests and deep ravines and the 150,000 government soldiers are not enough to combat this growing movement that models itself after the Shining Path of Peru. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • Villagers who lost their homes to elephants wake up on the floor of a neighbors house  near Tezpur in Assam, eastern India January 6, 2004.  Villagers have been forced to stay up lighting fires, banging tin cans, throwing firecrackers to keep elephants from destroying their crops, homes and somtimes killing people. India and its sacred elephants are threatened by the deforestation caused by encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. (Ami Vitale) 

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  • A child holds a mushroom in a village in Rwanda in 2004, ten years after the Rwandan genocide when at least 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and thousands of moderate Hutus in Rwanda were killed.  Despite intelligence provided before the killing began, and international news media coverage of the true scale of violence as the genocide unfolded, most first-world countries including France, Belgium and the United States declined to intervene or speak out against the planned massacres.
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  • Nisha Rathad, 20, covers her face and giggles as she stands in front of the Hindu Aryan symbol painted on her home March 2, 2002 in Ahmedabad, India. Her Muslim neighbor had been killed a few feet away from her home the day before. These symbols were painted on most Hindus homes to protect them from the religious violence that swept through this region and killed over three hundred people in three days, the worst communal bloodshed in a decade.
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  • A lone bull walks through the streets of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India after it was ravaged by a bloody spree of communal riots that killed an untold number and seriously threatens India's secular credentials on March 1, 2002. Officials put the death toll at more than 1000 but human rights groups and opposition parties say it is closer to 2,000 people killed.
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  • RUKUM DISTRICT, NEPAL, APRIL 17, 2004:  Donkeys , the only mode of transportation in this undeveloped terrain, cross a bridge in Rukum District April 17, 2004. Ill-equipped security forces in politically unstable Nepal are unable to control  Maoist rebels, who continue to abduct thousands of villagers for forcible indoctrination and military training.  The Maoists mainly target students, teachers and youths. The victims are usually released after a few days of indoctrination, unless they actively resist the "training attempts," in which case the rebels torture or sometimes kill them. Maoist insurgents have capture most of the Western part of Nepal in their attempt to make it a Communist State. Analysts and diplomats estimate there about 15,000-20,000 hard-core Maoist fighters, including many women, backed by 50,000 "militia".  In their remote strongholds, they collect taxes and have set up civil administrations, and people's courts. They also raise money by taxing villagers and foreign trekkers.  They are tough in Nepal's rugged terrain, full of thick forests and deep ravines and the 150,000 government soldiers are not enough to combat this growing movement that models itself after the Shining Path of Peru. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • Villagers who lost their homes to elephants wake up on the floor of a neighbors house  near Tezpur in Assam, eastern India January 6, 2004.  Villagers have been forced to stay up lighting fires, banging tin cans, throwing firecrackers to keep elephants from destroying their crops, homes and somtimes killing people. India and its sacred elephants are threatened by the deforestation caused by encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. (Ami Vitale)

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  • Villagers who lost their homes to elephants wake up on the floor of a neighbors house  near Tezpur in Assam, eastern India January 6, 2004.  Villagers have been forced to stay up lighting fires, banging tin cans, throwing firecrackers to keep elephants from destroying their crops, homes and somtimes killing people. India and its sacred elephants are threatened by the deforestation caused by encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. (Ami Vitale)

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  • A family member mourns the loss of her brother, who was gunned downed the day before in a cafe in Pec, Kosovo,  Wednesday, December 16, 1998. Six teenage Serbians were killed in the cafe allegedly by the Kosovo Liberation Army who were retaliating against the 31 Albanians killed on the border earlier   on Tuesday.  (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti and devastated the capital city, Port-au-Prince. Reportedly more than 150,000 people were killed and buried later in mass graves, although the exact number was difficult to determine and the reported number fluctuates, and a large number are homeless
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  • On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti and devastated the capital city, Port-au-Prince. Reportedly more than 150,000 people were killed and buried later in mass graves, although the exact number was difficult to determine and the reported number fluctuates, and a large number are homeless
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  • On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti and devastated the capital city, Port-au-Prince. Reportedly more than 150,000 people were killed and buried later in mass graves, although the exact number was difficult to determine and the reported number fluctuates, and a large number are homeless
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  • A caribou stands majestically, moments before he is killed by Joseph Catholique for food in the Thelon Sanctuary August, 2011. It is a place ruled by the biggest and smallest--the grizzly and the mosquito--and by the extremes of sub-arctic seasons. The Thelon is the largest and most remote game sanctuary in North America, which almost no one has heard of. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Indian army patrol Kupwara, a village north of Srinigar,  after two militants wer killed after they sought refuge inside a mosque Saturday, February 9, 2002 in the Indian held state of Kashmir. India and Pakistan have already fought two wars in Kashmir and are the brink again as they amass their troops along the Line of Control.
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  • Kashmiri men try to keep warm in the bitter cold morning hours before sunrise as they sell their vegetables at a floating market on Dal Lake in the summer capital of Kashmir, Srinagar India, November 24, 2001. In the background, echoing through the nearby mountains, gunshots and fighting could be heard. Kashmir was once a tourist hotspot but now vendors struggle to survive in a place that has seen nearly 1000 civilians killed this year alone and 1,765 wounded in a brutal conflict that the United Nations calls the most dangerous place in the world.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • Kashmiri men sell their vegetables at a floating market in the early hours before sunrise on Dal Lake in the troubled summer capital of Kashmir, Srinagar India, November 24, 2001. In the background, echoing through the nearby mountains, gunshots and fighting could be heard. Kashmir was once a tourist hotspot but now vendors struggle to survive in a place that has seen nearly 1000 civilians killed this year alone and 1,765 wounded in a brutal conflict that the United Nations calls the most dangerous place in the world.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • A Kashmiri man paddles to a floating market in the early freezing temperatures before sunrise on Dal Lake in the summer capital of Kashmir, Srinagar India, November 24, 2001. In the background, echoing through the nearby mountains, gunshots and fighting could be heard. Kashmir was once a tourist hotspot but now vendors struggle to survive in a place that has seen nearly 1000 civilians killed this year alone and 1,765 wounded in a brutal conflict that the United Nations calls the most dangerous place in the world.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • An Angolan who lost her leg to a land mine waits to get fitted for a prosethetic leg at the International Red Cross hospital in Huambo, Angola. Hundreds of thousands of Angolans  have lost limbs after stepping on a mine and in some towns one-in-four people have lost a limb or have been killed by mines. Despite a huge campaign to educate Angolans of the danger, most are forced to search the countryside for food despite the risk. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Angolan women grieve after a guard and child were killed by unknown armed men in a shooting spree at an orphanage  in Angola. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Angolans wait to see a doctor at the International Red Cross hospital in Huambo, Angola. Hundreds of thousands of Angolans  have lost limbs after stepping on a mine and in some towns one-in-four people have lost a limb or have been killed by mines. Despite a huge campaign to educate Angolans of the danger, most are forced to search the countryside for food despite the risk..(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan child practices walking on crutches at the International Red Cross hospital in Huambo, Angola. Hundreds of thousands of Angolans  have lost limbs after stepping on a mine and in some towns one-in-four people have lost a limb or have been killed by mines. Despite a huge campaign to educate Angolans of the danger, most are forced to search the countryside for food despite the risk..(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Ahmad Libanda talks about his son Hasan Ahmad who was killed by a lion in their corn field in Nkung'uni village. Ami Vitale
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  • Photographs of martyrs who were killed by Maoists hang next to pictures of the deceased King and Queen of Nepal who were shot by their son as well as photographs of the current King and Queen inKathmandu, Nepal March 6, 2005.   The conflict between government troops and the Maoist insurgents has claimed over 11,000 lives since 1996. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Ahmad Libanda stands in the corn field where his son Hasan Ahmad was killed by a lion in Nkung'uni  village. Ami Vitale
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  • Ahmad Libanda talks about his son Hasan Ahmad who was killed by a lion in their corn field in Nkung'uni  village. Ami Vitale
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  • KUPWARA, KASHMIR - AUGUST 18: Rice fields near the Line of Control in the Keran Sector of the Kupwara District in the Indian held state of Jammu and  Kashmir is seen from above, August 18, 2002.  Indian Army troops killed 7 militants early yesterday morning as they attempted to infiltrate from Pakistan along the Line of Control. They carried with them a large quantity of ammunition, arms and jehadi literature.   (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KUPWARA, KASHMIR - AUGUST 18: Rice fields near the Line of Control in the Keran Sector of the Kupwara District in the Indian held state of Jammu and  Kashmir is seen from above, August 18, 2002.  Indian Army troops killed 7 militants early yesterday morning as they attempted to infiltrate from Pakistan along the Line of Control. They carried with them a large quantity of ammunition, arms and jehadi literature.   (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KUPWARA, KASHMIR - AUGUST 18: An Army soldier sits inside a truck along the Line of Control in the Keran Sector of the Kupwara District in the Indian held state of Jammu and  Kashmir August 18, 2002.  Indian Army troops killed 7 militants early yesterday morning as they attempted to infiltrate from Pakistan along the Line of Control. They carried with them a large quantity of ammunition, arms and jehadi literature.   (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11:  American Marines walk back into the American Embassy after they listened to a speech in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002 where remains of the World Trade Center were laid as a symbolic gesture for those that died in the attack one year ago.While Americans are remembering the attack, most Afghans are trying to forget the decades old war which killed more than a million people here in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11: An Afghan boy with polio is fitted for a leg brace that he will learn to walk with at an ICRC hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002. While Americans are remembering the attack on the World Trade Center  one year ago today, most Afghans are trying to forget the decades old war which killed more than a million people here in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11: An Afghan girl with polio and a man who lost his leg  learn to walk with at an ICRC hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002. While Americans are remembering the attack on the World Trade Center  one year ago today, most Afghans are trying to forget the decades old war which killed more than a million people here in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11: An Afghan girl and man who lost their legs to explosive devices  learn to walk with at an ICRC hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002. While Americans are remembering the attack on the World Trade Center  one year ago today, most Afghans are trying to forget the decades old war which killed more than a million people here in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11: An Afghan girl learns to walk with an  artificial leg at an ICRC hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002. While Americans are remembering the attack on the World Trade Center  one year ago today, most Afghans are trying to forget the decades old war which killed more than a million people here in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 8: A wreath is hung around a poster of Ahmad Shah Massoud September 8, 2002 who was killed one year ago from tomorrow in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KANDAHAR,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT.6 : Afghan soldiers patrol the city near the Governor's house the day after   an assassination attempt was made on President Hamid Karzai, September 6, 2002 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Governor Gul Agha Sherzai was shot and wounded, not long after 15 people were killed and many others were wounded in blasts in Kabul.. .(Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KANDAHAR,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT.6 : Afghan soldiers guard the Governor's house as he meets with tribal elders after he was wounded yesterday during an assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai, September 6, 2002 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Governor Gul Agha Sherzai was shot and wounded, not long after 15 people were killed and many others were wounded in blasts in Kabul.. .(Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • NEPALGANJ, NEPAL, APRIL 14, 2004: A Nepali girl, Sunita Bikas cries after reading a letter from her sister as she sits insidethe Sahara orphanage in Nepalganj, Nepal April 14, 2004.  She was orphaned because of the Maoist insurgency that has killed nearly 10,000 people since 1996, 2000 of them being children.  (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KATHMANDU, NEPAL, APRIL 14, 2004: Nepali nurses look after Sunil Sharma, 9 years old, in a hospital in Nepalganj, Nepal who was injured in an explosion 10 days earlier by Maoist insurgents fighting government forces April 14, 2004.  Over two thousand children have been killed in the fighting which began in 1996.  (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KATHMANDU, NEPAL, APRIL 14, 2004: Nepali nurses  and his mother look after Sunil Sharma, 9 years old, in a hospital in Nepalganj, Nepal who was injured in an explosion 10 days earlier by Maoist insurgents fighting government forces April 14, 2004.  Over two thousand children have been killed in the fighting which began in 1996.  (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • Kashmiri men sell their vegetables at a floating market in the early hours before sunrise on Dal Lake in the troubled summer capital of Kashmir, Srinagar India, November 24, 2001. In the background, echoing through the nearby mountains, gunshots and fighting could be heard. Kashmir was once a tourist hotspot but now vendors struggle to survive in a place that has seen nearly 1000 civilians killed this year alone and 1,765 wounded in a brutal conflict that the United Nations calls the most dangerous place in the world.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KUPWARA, KASHMIR - AUGUST 18: Rice fields near the Line of Control in the Keran Sector of the Kupwara District in the Indian held state of Jammu and  Kashmir is seen from above, August 18, 2002.  Indian Army troops killed 7 militants early yesterday morning as they attempted to infiltrate from Pakistan along the Line of Control. They carried with them a large quantity of ammunition, arms and jehadi literature.
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  • Fishermen take their fibre glass boats out in the bay where all nearly of their homes and boats were destroyed  after the deadly tsunami hit last December 26 in the village of Muzuku Thurai near Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu, India August 26, 2005.  Recovery is slow eight months after the deadly tsunami killed thousands, destroyed homes and livelihoods. The situation is still grim for many who suffer from poor living conditions, depression and many have taken up alcohol as a means to escape.  (Ami Vitale)
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  • A Kashmiri man paddles to a floating market in the early freezing temperatures before sunrise on Dal Lake in the summer capital of Kashmir, Srinagar India, November 24. In the background, echoing through the nearby mountains, gunshots and fighting could be heard. Kashmir was once a tourist hotspot but now vendors struggle to survive in a place that has seen nearly 1000 civilians killed this year alone and 1,765 wounded in a brutal conflict that the United Nations calls the most dangerous place in the world.
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  • Fishermen bring in their nets on the beach across the bay from where all nearly of their homes and boats were destroyed  after the deadly tsunami hit last December 26 in the village of Muzuku Thurai near Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu, India August 26, 2005. Families are slowly recovering eight months after the deadly tsunami killed thousands but the process is slow and the situation still grim for many of the worlds poorest who were most affected by the deadly wave.  (Ami Vitale)
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  • Blacksburg, Va. UNITED STATES: Virginia Tech students watch balloons they released with the names of those killed on the campus during a moment of silence in Blacksburg, Va. April 20, 2007.  A 23-year-old student from South Korea was identified as the gunman who carried out the deadliest school shooting in US history.  33 people died on Monday, police named the gunman as Cho Seung-Hui, a student at the school and resident alien in the United States. (AMi Vitale)
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  • Gowindra, 19, has the "thali" a necklance symbolizing her marriage tied around her neck by her husband during the wedding in Nagapattinum district in Tamil Nadu, India  eight months since the deadly tsunami killed thousands August  29, 2005. Both she and her husband's family both lost relatives, their homes and livelihoods in the wave and must live in the temporary shelters after the ceremony. Hundreds of "tsunami weddings" have taken place since December as families received huge amounts of money for their deceased relatives and wished to make allegiances with other families who received money. In India, the girls family must pay a dowry and Gowindra had to pay a staggering 200,000 rupees, nearly $5000 in a community that survives off an average $1 per day. Elaborate and ostentatious wedding functions have become normal fare for those victims of the tsunami who suddenly were given the huge sums of money and alcohol sales have jumped 300 percent.  The recovery process is slow and the situation still grim for many of the worlds poorest who were most affected by the deadly wave.  (Ami Vitale)
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  • Children play on the beach across the bay where all nearly of their homes and boats were destroyed  after the deadly tsunami hit last December 26 in the village of Muzuku Thurai near Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu, India August 26, 2005. Aid agencies  are providing entertainment for children in an effort to help them recover from the severe psycho-social health problems endemic to a catastrophe of this scale. Recovery is slow eight months after the deadly tsunami killed thousands, destroyed homes and livelihoods. The situation is still grim for many who suffer from poor living conditions, depression and many have taken up  alcohol as a means to escape.  (Ami Vitale)
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  • Children watch a puppet show performed by Unicef workers across the bay where all nearly of their homes and boats were destroyed  after the deadly tsunami hit last December 26 in the village of Muzuku Thurai near Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu, India August 26, 2005. Aid agencies  are providing entertainment for children in an effort to help them recover from the severe psycho-social health problems endemic to a catastrophe of this scale. Recovery is slow eight months after the deadly tsunami killed thousands, destroyed homes and livelihoods. The situation is still grim for many who suffer from poor living conditions, depression and many have taken up  alcohol as a means to escape.  (Ami Vitale)
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  • Fishermen bring in their nets on the beach across the bay from where all nearly of their homes and boats were destroyed  after the deadly tsunami hit last December 26 in the village of Muzuku Thurai near Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu, India August 26, 2005. Families are slowly recovering eight months after the deadly tsunami killed thousands but the process is slow and the situation still grim for many of the worlds poorest who were most affected by the deadly wave.  (Ami Vitale)
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  • Elephants roam inside the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, eastern India where thousands of tourists visit each year January 4, 2004. India and its sacred elephants are threatened by deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Elephants roam inside the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, eastern India where thousands of tourists visit each year January 4, 2004. India and its sacred elephants are threatened by deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Elephants roam inside the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, eastern India where thousands of tourists visit each year January 4, 2004. India and its sacred elephants are threatened by deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Relics from a  puja ceremony to Hindu Gods including Ganesh, the half human-half elephant God sit on the banks of a river in Tezpur, in Assam, eastern India December 25, 2003. India and its sacred elephants are threatened by deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops but still people revere the elephants. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Hundreds, perhaps thousands of villagers, forest rangers, police and wildlife experts attempt to drive a herd of elephants from a village on the outskirts of Tezpur, Assam in Eastern India December 22, 2003.  India and its sacred elephants are threatened by poaching, deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result of the loss of land, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. During this drive, a baby elephant, only days old was seperating from his mother and faces probable death without her. He is now at a rescue center in Kaziranga. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Elephants roam inside the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, eastern India where thousands of tourists visit each year January 4, 2004. India and its sacred elephants are threatened by deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Hundreds, perhaps thousands of villagers, forest rangers, police and wildlife experts attempt to drive a herd of elephants from a village on the outskirts of Tezpur, Assam in Eastern India December 22, 2003.  India and its sacred elephants are threatened by poaching, deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result of the loss of land, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. During this drive, a baby elephant, only days old was seperating from his mother and faces probable death without her. He is now at a rescue center in Kaziranga. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Wildlife graze inside the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, eastern India where thousands of tourists visit each year January 6, 2004. India and its sacred elephants are threatened by deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Indian Forest rangers take a man accused of murder and illegal logging back to the murder scene in Sonitpur district in Assam, eastern India  December 29,2003.   India and its elephants are threatened by deforestation because of encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Elephants roam inside the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, eastern India where thousands of tourists visit each year. India and its sacred elephants are threatened by deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. They are often atttracted by the rice farms and in one night can destroy an entire villages' crop. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Elephants roam inside the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, eastern India where thousands of tourists visit each year. India and its sacred elephants are threatened by deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. They are often atttracted by the rice farms and in one night can destroy an entire villages' crop. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Elephants roam inside the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, eastern India where thousands of tourists visit each year. India and its sacred elephants are threatened by deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. They are often atttracted by the rice farms and in one night can destroy an entire villages' crop. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Elephants roam inside the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, eastern India where thousands of tourists visit each year. India and its sacred elephants are threatened by deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. They are often atttracted by the rice farms and in one night can destroy an entire villages' crop. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Elephants roam inside the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, eastern India where thousands of tourists visit each year. India and its sacred elephants are threatened by deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. They are often atttracted by the rice farms and in one night can destroy an entire villages' crop. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Elephants roam inside the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, eastern India where thousands of tourists visit each year. India and its sacred elephants are threatened by deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. They are often atttracted by the rice farms and in one night can destroy an entire villages' crop. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Elephants roam inside the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, eastern India where thousands of tourists visit each year. India and its sacred elephants are threatened by deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. They are often atttracted by the rice farms and in one night can destroy an entire villages' crop. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Elephants roam inside the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, eastern India where thousands of tourists visit each year. India and its sacred elephants are threatened by deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. They are often atttracted by the rice farms and in one night can destroy an entire villages' crop. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Elephants roam inside the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, eastern India where thousands of tourists visit each year. India and its sacred elephants are threatened by deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. They are often atttracted by the rice farms and in one night can destroy an entire villages' crop. (Ami Vitale)
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  • A Kashmiri man paddles to a floating market in the early freezing temperatures before sunrise on Dal Lake in the summer capital of Kashmir, Srinagar India, November 24. In the background, echoing through the nearby mountains, gunshots and fighting could be heard. Kashmir was once a tourist hotspot but now vendors struggle to survive in a place that has seen nearly 1000 civilians killed this year alone and 1,765 wounded in a brutal conflict that the United Nations calls the most dangerous place in the world.
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  • The family of Mnsor Tahasied Ahmed, 22, mourns his death before he is buried in Hebron, Saturday, October 14, 2000.  He was killed on Friday by Israeli soldiers. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • A Palestinian soldier expresses his anger at the funeral of Musbah Abdelgadr Abu Atig, 27, who was killed by Israeli soldiers a day earlier and  buried Tuesday, October 17, 2000 in Gaza.     (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • BADGAM, KASHMIR,INDIA, MARCH 10, 2004:Villagers mourn the death of five people who were killed along with  48 who were injured, when a grenade exploded in the hands of a man who was seeking to extort money from a family in Badgam district of Kashmir, March 10, 2004.   Locals said the man was a former militant who was extorting money from villagers and thousands came out to mourn the deaths. Tens of thousands of people have died in Kashmir since the eruption of anti-Indian revolt in the region in 1989. Separatists put the toll at between 80,000 and 100,000.
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  • SRINAGAR, INDIA, MARCH 10, 2004:Children cry as Indian army bring back the bodies of  five people who were killed when a grenade exploded in the hands of a man who was seeking to extort money from a family in Budgam district of Kashmir, March 10, 2004.   Locals said the man was a former militant who was extorting money from villagers and thousands came out to mourn the deaths. Tens of thousands of people have died in Kashmir since the eruption of anti-Indian revolt in the region in 1989. Separatists put the toll at between 80,000 and 100,000.
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  • Villagers mourn the death of five people who were killed along with  48 who were injured, when a grenade exploded in the hands of a man who was seeking to extort money from a family in Badgam district of Kashmir, March 10, 2004.   Locals said the man was a former militant who was extorting money from villagers and thousands came out to mourn the deaths. Tens of thousands of people have died in Kashmir since the eruption of anti-Indian revolt in the region in 1989. Separatists put the toll at between 80,000 and 100,000.
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  • A Kashmiri woman looks through a fence outside a graveyard to try and see an unidentified youth who was found killed in the streets of Srinagar, the summer capital of the Indian held state of Kashmir, April 3, 2002. Every Kashmiri citizen has been affected by this  tragic conflict which has been going on for over a decade.  Nearly a dozen militant groups are fighting New Delhi's rule. India accuses Pakistan of arming and training Islamic militants. Pakistan denies the charge and says it only offers moral and diplomatic support to Kashmiri separatists.
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  • SRINGAR,KASHMIR--MAY 1:  Kashmiri protesters fight with Indian security forces in the village of Sowtang in Budgam district, outside Srinagar, the Indian administered summer capital of Kashmir, May 1, 2003. Hundreds of Kashmiris were protesting the death of  a 17- year-old student, Javed Ahmad Magray, who was allegedly taken from his home in the night by Indian security and killed in cold blood.
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  • A Muslim Kashmiri woman sits inside a shop with her children where traditional Islamic veils are made in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian held Kashmir. The shadowy group, Lashkar-e-Jabbar, also known as Allah's Army sent a letter to a local newspaper saying that Muslim Kashmiri women must adhere to the dress code or face acid attacks beginning on April 1, 2002. The leader of the group also wrote, "if our members see any boy or girl or any illegal couple doing acts of immortality they will be killed there and then".The same group claimed responisiblity for two acid attacks on women in Srinagar last year. Kashmir has been the center of the ongoing dispute between India and Pakistan since the region was partioned when the British left in 1947.
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  • Kashmiri men pray inside the Jama Masjid mosque during Ramadan in Srinagar, the summer capital of the state of Kashmir in India, November 20.  Kashmir has seen over 900 civilians killed this year and 1,765 wounded in a brutal conflict that the United Nations once called the most dangerous place in the world.
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  • Kashmiri children load themselves up in a rickshaw on their way back from school in the city of Srinagar   in  Kashmir during Ramadan November 21.  Kashmir has seen nearly 1000 civilians killed this year alone and 1,765 wounded in a brutal conflict that the United Nations calls the most dangerous place in the world.  (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • PAMPORE, KASHMIR - SEPT. 30: Kashmiri villagers harvest rice near Pampore, a town outside of  Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir September 30, 2002. Many Kashmiris living in this region where the third stage of the vote is to take place say they need to work in the fields rather than vote since this is the time of harvesting.  More than 500 people have been killed in election related violence since they were announced August 2.
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  • Shaikh Kulsumbibi, 37, a Muslim whose village of Sardarpur was destroyed in a gruesome vengeance attack weeps as she seeks refuge in another village in India, March 3, 2002.  Hindus came in the middle of the night and massacred nearly every one of her neighbors and family living there in a strategically designed plan which involved flooding the exit and then electrocuting those who were not first killed by the firebombs and kerosene.
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  • An elderly Muslim woman's body whose throat was slashed and then set on fire lies outside of her home March 2, 2002 in Ahmedabad, India. Her home sat next door to a local police station but she and an untold number of others were brutally killed by angry mobs on a spree of vengeance. Troops arrived in India's riot-torn western state of Gujarat but were unable to quell the religious violence that brought back stark memories of Partition in 1947.
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  • An Angolan who lost her leg to a land mine gets fitted for a prosethetic leg at the International Red Cross hospital in Huambo, Angola. Hundreds of thousands of Angolans  have lost limbs after stepping on a mine and in some towns one-in-four people have lost a limb or have been killed by mines. Despite a huge campaign to educate Angolans of the danger, most are forced to search the countryside for food despite the risk..(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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