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Showcase: Deadly Streets - Lens Blog - NYTimes.com
CARACAS, Venezuela — Murders in this hardened city have grown so widespread that looking at the homicide statistics alone can seem banal. In one 60-hour span in July, for instance, the Bello Monte morgue overflowed with the corpses of 49 murder victims. Homicides nationwide surged almost 31 percent in the first quarter to 4,659, according to the Interior Ministry. No wonder Caraqueños grimly joke about studies of violence that rank their city as deadlier than Baghdad . “ Capitolio ,” the new book on Venezuela by Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson , offers a stunning view into Caracas’s descent from its perch as one of Latin America’s most economically advanced, if unequal, cities into a place gripped by low-intensity chaos and fear.
Battle for Hearts and Minds
“ . . . a vivid and moving testament to what’s really going on in Afghanistan, and in the hearts and minds of the soldiers fighting there.” -- Entertainment Weekly, Owen Gleiberman © 2011 Hell and Back Again www.docurama.com | www.newvideo.comSexual violence is a devastating weapon in the war-torn North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Congolese army and rebel groups systematically use brutal gang rape against their enemies, causing crippling injuries and spreading HIV. The numbers speak for themselves. Aid groups estimate one in three women in North Kivu have been raped. Over 30 per cent of these have been infected with HIV.
Sexual warfare: rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo - smh.c
A Changing War - The New York Times > Asia Pacific > Slide Show
The conflict in Afghanistan stands to become more invigorated, and hopeful, albeit perhaps more bloody, as American units push into longstanding Taliban sanctuaries. Left, a patrol towards the village of Wanat, where last year nine American soldiers were killed.
Members of a new commando unit of the Frontier Corps paramilitary force, whose main mission is to kill and capture fighters of Al Qaeda and the Taliban in the Pakistani tribal areas. At left, in a training exercise, the group demonstrates a mock ambush by "Taliban" fighters, whom they then will detain at a Frontier Corps base.
Commandos in the Tribal Areas - The New York Times > Asia Pacifi
The Battle in Afghanistan's Kunar Province - Photo Essays - TIME
Things are less than quiet on the eastern front, where coalition forces play a deadly game of cat and mouse with jihadists, smugglers and gangstersThe British Military Presence in Helmand - The New York Times >
The British military have been conducting major operations to control travel routes in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand Province in anticipation of upcoming presidential elections. British troops of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guard in transport to a forward operating base in July.