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  • Indian police bathe in the early morning light of the Indian city of Ayodhya, March 11, 2002. About three thousand extra police have been brought to maintain order to the tense city as Hindus pledge to build a temple at the site where a mosque was razed in 1992. The BJP,  Bharatiya Janata Party which heads the coalition government, is under pressure to rein in its hard-line Hindu allies who have begun a religious ceremony or "puja" to mark the beginning of the building.   (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • A "puja" or religious ceremony is begun by Hindu religious leaders in the northern Indian city of Ayodhya in preparation for the building of a temple March 11, 2002. There is a quiet but tense atmosphere as the country waits to see what India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) will do to  to cool tensions between Muslims and Hindus . The BJP, which heads the coalition government, is under pressure to rein in the hard-line Hindu allies  who plan to build a temple on March 15 near the site of a razed mosque.  . (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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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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  • Hindus wash after making prayers to Lord Shiva at the river Saruj in the northern Indian city of Ayodhya at sunrise March 12, 2002. Today is Shiva Ratri, a holiday to honor Lord Shiva when he was married. There is a quiet but tense atmosphere as the country waits to see what India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) will do to  to cool tensions between Muslims and Hindus . The BJP, which heads the coalition government, is under pressure to rein in its erstwhile hard-line Hindu allies -- whose plans to build a temple on March 15 near the site of a razed mosque are helping to fuel the tensions.  (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • Indian police drag away a man believed to be instigating violence in central Ahmedabad, India, March 3, 2002.  The violence left more than a thousand dead and an entire nation traumatized and divided.
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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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  • Palestinian Hamas supporters display a show of force at a protest in Gaza, Monday, October 16, 2000. Many Palestinians are angry that Yassar Arafat agreed to attend the crisis summit in Egypt which is meant to stop the spiral of violence in the Middle East. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • SRINAGAR, KASHMIR - SEPT. 24: Border Security Force troopers run for cover as they flush out two Muslim militants holed up inside a residential house in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state, on September 24. Few people braved anti-poll violence in Kashmir's main city to vote in a state election after the early morning gun battle.
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  • Kashmiri youth scream "We want freedom" during a protest in the streets of Srinagar on September 24. Few people braved anti-poll violence in Kashmir's main city to vote in a state election after an early morning gun battle between Indian Border Security Forces and suspected Muslim militants.
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  • Muslims who had begged police to protect them the day before huddle in the wreckage of their burned out homes March 2, 2002 after a mob of Hindu neighbors attacked them from across a street of Ahmedabad, India. They said that 2 babies were burned alive as well as countless others who were killed in the worst religious violence India has seen in 10 years.
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  • NABLUS, WEST BANK, FEB. 12, 2003: Palestinian children  play in a park a during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) in the West Bank city of Nablus,  February 12, 2003. Most families are not able to see their relatives this year because of a complete closure for all Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. While Israel maintains that they are trying to control and capture potential terrorists,  every Palestinian is suffering enormous hardships. Most people have expressed their fears because of the violence and see little hope for the future. (Phot by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • NABLUS, ISRAEL, JAN. 29,2003: A section of the old city of Nablus that was destroyed by Israeli helicopters is January 31, 2003 in the West Bank city of Nablus. A British non-governmental agency recently reported that Palestinians are currently living in a state of extreme, worsening poverty and fear for their future.  Almost three-quarters of Palestinians now live on less than US$2 a day Ñ below the United Nations  poverty line..(Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • An Angolan woman pleads with an aid worker to look at her child who is suffering from malnutrition in the town of Kuito March, 2000. 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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  • An Angolan child stands in one of the many destroyed buildings in the town of Kuito in the Bie Province of Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. 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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  • An Angolan soldier known as "Bernardo" stands in the center of a town in the interior region where fighting between the rebels and government forces left the edifices in ruins. 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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  • A refugee camp outside the capital of Luanda in Angola is shown in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  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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  • 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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  • Angolans walk past one of the many destroyed buildings in the town of Huambo 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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  • 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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  • People walk along the main promenade in the capital of Luanda in Angola at dusk in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  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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  • Angolan children play in one of the many destroyed buildings in the town of Kuito in the Bie Province of Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. Not only has Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war destroyed much of the country's infrastructure but it has displaced around two million people. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Houses built for foreign families working for oil companies  sit in sharp contrast to the shanty towns that most Angolans have in the capital of Luanda in Angola.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  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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  • An Angolan child stands in one of the many destroyed buildings in the town of Kuito in the Bie Province of Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. 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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  • An Angolan child stands in one of the many destroyed buildings in the town of Kuito in the Bie Province of Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. 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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  • Valentina Cayovo, 38, stands on her crutches inside her home which she rebuilt after guerrilla UNITA forces destroyed it. 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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  • An Angolan child stands in one of the many destroyed buildings in the town of Kuito in the Bie Province of Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. 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 who are suffering from severe malnutrition are treated in Kuito, Angola. The irony of the t-shirt "Party Naked" is lost in a brutal 26 year-civil war, which has displaced around two million people. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan soldier known as "Bernardo" walks through the destroyed town of Kuito as a man who lost his leg to a landmine walks on crutches behind him.  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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  • An Angolan plays in a camp for displaced persons near Huambo, Angola. Non-governmental Aid agencies helped the refugees build the houses after they were chased out of their own villages because of fighting. 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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  • The capital of Luanda in Angola is shown in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  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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  • Displaced Angolans walk at least twenty miles to the city of Kuito with sacks of charcoal on their heads in order to sell it so they have money to buy food and medicines. 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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  • Evaristo Tinka, 19, from Katabola, Angola is fed intravaneously with glucose at a Medicines San Frontiers (MSF) emergency hospital, Friday March 3, 2000. 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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  • An Angolan  plays in a camp for displaced persons near Huambo, Angola. Non-governmental Aid agencies helped the refugees build the houses after they were chased out of their own villages because of fighting. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil 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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  • 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 : An Afghan woman walks next to the Governor's house September 6, 2002 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The city remains tense after Kandahar Governor Gul Agha Sherzai was shot during an apparent assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai yesterday evening. .(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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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: A Pashtun Afghan who was living in a camp for displaced people around Spin Boldak, near the border of Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, covers his face from dust in the new camp where he has been relocated called Zhare Dasht September 4, 2002.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in   camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  Pashtuns are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert surrounded by mines about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • GERESHK,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: Children watch as a female Afghan inoculator administers the polio vaccination to the child of an Afghan woman  on the last day of a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign September 5, 2002 near Gereshk, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign targeted 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators went from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket were immunised. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • GERESHK,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: An Afghan child suffering from malnutrition is shown to UNICEF health workers administering the polio vaccination on the last day of a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign September 5, 2002 near Gereshk, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign targeted 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators went from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket were immunised. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: A Pashtun Afghan who was living in a camp for displaced people around Spin Boldak, near the border of Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, is relocated to the encamptment of Zhare Dasht by the UNHCR September 4, 2002.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in   camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  Pashtuns are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert surrounded by mines about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • SPIN BOLDAK,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: An Afghan child from the Kuchi nomadic tribe laughs despite the horrible living conditions in an encamptment near Spin Boldak, the border town between Pakistan and southern Afghanistan September 4, 2002.  The UNHCR is trying to relocate tens of thousands of internally displaced people at the same time as an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan. Ethnic Pashtuns and Kuchi nomads from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  theys are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert surrounded by mines about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4:  Afghan Kuchi nomad children that were living in a camp for displaced people around Spin Boldak, near the border of Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, are relocated to the encamptment of Zhare Dasht by the UNHCR September 4, 2002.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in   camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  Pashtuns and Kuchis are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert surrounded by mines about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 3: An Afghan Kuchi nomad girl who was living in camps around Spin Boldak, near the border of Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, relaxes after a grueling day of being relocated to the desolate, dusty encamptment of Zhare Dasht by the UNHCR September 3, 2002.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns and Kuchi Nomads from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in refugee camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  they are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in a dismal camp  like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KANDAHAR,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 3: The stunning but desolate and dusty province of Kandahar is shown from an aerial photograph September 3, 2002 in Afghanistan.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in refugee camps in this region. Numbering up to 120,000,  Pashtuns are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • NABLUS, ISRAEL, JAN. 31,2003: A young teenage Palestinian couple defy a curfew and celbrate their wedding, January 31, 2003 in the West Bank city of Nablus. A British non-governmental agency recently reported that Palestinians are currently living in a state of extreme, worsening poverty and fear for their future.  Almost three-quarters of Palestinians now live on less than US$2 a day Ñ below the United Nations  poverty line..(Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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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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  • Palestinians express their rage towards the Israeli army in the West Bank town of Ramallah,  October 11, 2000.  Guns are still rattling  as the two sides grope to find a solution to the  fighting.  Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat  says "We have funerals everyday. Who can control a people who have funerals every day?" (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Indian baby displaced by the fighting along the Line of Control between Pakistan and India sleeps inside a police station in Samba in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, May 21, 2002. Fears of another war between India and Pakistan grow as a moderate Kashmiri leader, Abdul Gane Lone was shot by unidendified gunmen in Srinagar, India. Lone was one of the leaders of the All Party Hurriyat Conference, a group of political and religious parties that advocate Muslim-majority Kashmir's separation from predominantly Hindu India.
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  • Ratno Devi and her two sons who were forced to migrate from their home in Pargwal, India prepare tents near Ahknoor in the Indian held state of Jammu and Kashmir, May 29, 2002. Indian and Pakistani troops continue to exchange heavy mortar, artillery and machine-gun fire along the line that divides Kashmir between them. India is pressing Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to crack down on the flow of Muslim militants from Pakistan into Kashmir.
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  • An Indian soldier listens to the radio inside his vehicle as the snow covered landscape is reflected in the window on a road in Kupwara, a village north of Srinigar, where two militants were shot after they sought refuge inside a mosque Saturday, February 9 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • An Angolan soldier known as "Bernardo" stands in the center of a town in the interior region where fighting between the rebels and government forces left the edifices in ruins. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil 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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  • Houses built for foreign families working for oil companies  sit in sharp contrast to the shanty towns that most Angolans have in the capital of  Luanda in Angola.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil 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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  • Houses built for foreign families working for oil companies  sit in sharp contrast to the shanty towns that most Angolans have in the capital of  Luanda in Angola.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil 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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  • An Angolan child stands in one of the many destroyed buildings in the town of Kuito in the Bie Province of Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil 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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  • Valentina Cayovo, 38, stands on her crutches inside her home which she rebuilt after guerrilla UNITA forces destroyed it. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil 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 who are suffering from severe malnutrition wait to be treated in Kuito, Angola. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil 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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  • Hundreds of internally displaced people in Angola, wait in line to be analyzed by aid workers in the town of Kuito March, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil 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 who are suffering from severe malnutrition are treated in Kuito, Angola. The irony of the t-shirt "Party Naked" is lost in a brutal 26 year-civil which has displaced around two million people..(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • A make-shift hospital in the interior of Angola serves as the only medicine for a society whose brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil 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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  • An Angolan child stands in one of the many destroyed buildings in the town of Kuito in the Bie Province of Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil 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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  • Evaristo Tinka, 19, from Katabola, Angola is fed intravaneously with glucose at a (MSF) Medicines San Frontiers emergency hospital, Friday March 3, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil 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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  • Homes that Angolans live in are in sharp contrast to the homes for foreigners and government officials in the capital of Luanda in Angola in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil 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 soldier known as "Bernardo" walks through the destroyed town of Kuito as a man who lost his leg to a landmine walks on crutches behind him.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil 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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  • NABLUS, WEST BANK, FEB. 9 2003: A Palestinian visits  a grave of his relative on the eve of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) in the West Bank city of Nablus,  February 10, 2003. <br />
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  • An Angolan who is suffering from severe malnutrition is treated in Kuito, 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 who are suffering from severe malnutrition wait to be treated in Kuito, 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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  • An Angolan working for a humanitarian aid agency makes latrines nearby the town of Kuito in the Bie Province of Angola to be used in the refugee camps for internally displaced people. 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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  • Angolan women prepare huge vats of sorgham to feed the hundreds of internally displaced people in the town of Kuito March, 2000. 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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  • Children at an orphanage wait to eat at a feeding center in Huambo in the interior region of 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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  • Children at an orphanage wait to eat at a feeding center in Huambo in the interior region of 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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  • Homes that Angolans live in are in sharp contrast to the homes for foreigners and government officials in the capital of Luanda in Angola in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  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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  • Angolan children attempt to surf on their hand made surf boards which they carved out of driftwood after they watched French foreigners surfing on the beaches outside of the capital of  Luanda in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  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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  • Homes that Angolans live in are in sharp contrast to the homes for foreigners and government officials in the capital of Luanda in Angola in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil 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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  • Houses built for foreign families working for oil companies  sit in sharp contrast to the shanty towns that most Angolans have in the capital of Luanda in Angola.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil 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 who are suffering from severe malnutrition wait to be treated in Kuito, 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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  • 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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  • Hundreds of internally displaced people in Angola, wait in line to be analyzed by aid workers in the town of Kuito March, 2000. 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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  • 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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  • An Angolan man who lost his leg to a landmine walks several miles on crutches from a camp for internally displaced people to get food in the town of Huambo in Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. 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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  • A make-shift hospital in the interior of Angola serves as the only medicine for a society whose brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million peopl and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Hundreds of internally displaced people in Angola, wait in line to be analyzed by aid workers in the town of Kuito March, 2000. 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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  • An Angolan child stands in one of the many destroyed buildings in the town of Kuito in the Bie Province of Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. 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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  • 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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  • Angolan women prepare huge vats of sorgum to feed the hundreds of internally displaced people of Angola, in March, 2000. 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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  • An Angolan child stands in one of the many destroyed buildings in the town of Kuito in the Bie Province of Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. 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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  • The capital of Luanda in Angola is shown in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  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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  • The capital of Luanda in Angola is shown in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  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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  • A make-shift hospital in the interior of Angola serves as the only medical facility for a society whose brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people. 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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  • Displaced Angolan children create toys out of cans that brought food distributed by the United States government in a refugee camp in Huambo in March, 2000. 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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  • NABLUS, WEST BANK, FEB. 11, 2003: Palestinian children play with their new toys on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) in the West Bank city of Nablus,  February 10, 2003.(Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • NABLUS, ISRAEL, FEB 5, 2003: Palestinian children who have not had teachers for the last three weeks because  they are not permitted to travel from the nearby city of Nablus, attempt to catch up on all their missed lessons after the instructors finally were permitted to cross the checkpoint for the first time today, February 5, 2003. When the teachers tried to go home, they were made to wait for nearly 4 hours at the barricade by Israeli soldiers. Not only do the students and teachers suffer difficulties with getting to their schools, but they also do not have books because of the road blocks. A British non-governmental agency recently reported that Palestinians are currently living in a state of extreme, worsening poverty and fear for their future.  (Ami Vitale)
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  • KANDAHAR,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT.6 :  Afghan children pump water near a cemetery where Taliban are buried September 6, 2002 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The city remains tense afterKandahar Governor Gul Agha Sherzai was shot during an apparent assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai yesterday evening. .(Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KANDAHAR,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT.6 :  Afghan children fly kites near a cemetery where Taliban are buried September 6, 2002 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The city remains tense afterKandahar Governor Gul Agha Sherzai was shot during an apparent assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai yesterday evening. .(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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  • KANDAHAR,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT.6 :  Afghans look at balloons near the old Governor's mansion September 6, 2002 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The city remains tense after Kandahar Governor Gul Agha Sherzai was shot during an apparent assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai yesterday evening. .(Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KANDAHAR,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT.6 :  Afghan children fly kites near a cemetery where Taliban are buried September 6, 2002 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The city remains tense afterKandahar Governor Gul Agha Sherzai was shot during an apparent assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai yesterday evening. .(Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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