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April 23, 2006




From Here, There, and Everywhere


PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian-Muslim woman takes photographs with her mobile phone of thousands of skulls on display at the Choeung Ek killing fields memorial as Cambodia marks the 31st anniversary of the Khmer Rouge regime's rise to power. As many as two million people died from starvation, overwork or execution during the 1975-79 rule of the Khmer Rouge, which erased all vestiges of modern life in their drive for an agrarian Utopia.







BINPUR: An Indian tribal lady walks alongside a 'direct to home' (DTH) dish antenna installed outside a village house to watch television at Binpur, some 260km from Kolkata. Most of he urban population still watch cable TV, but at the same time the DTH is gaining popularity in rural and semi-urban areas where the availability of satellite broadcast is easier then to install a cable network.








SANTIAGO: Japanese businesswoman Satomi Kataoka, 39, new wife of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, arrives at the Escuela de Gendarmeria to visit her husband. Kataoka married in absentia Fujimori on April 6 in Japan, while he awaits in detention in Chile the results of the extradition request presented upon him by the Peruvian Justice for charges of corruption and violations of human rights.










JAKARTA: A member of Indonesian Army Special Force, Kopassus, dances as others sing during a ceremony. Last week, a military drill was organized to celebrate the 54th anniversary of the special force unit.













RAST: Refugees from Rast,, 300km south-west of Bucharest, sit with their belongings in the new makeshift tent they built after fleeing their flooded home. Thousands of residents have been evacuated from two Danube villages in western Romania and thousands more are under threat, as last week the river hit record levels in Romania.










BOGOTA: Actors of the Pan Optikum company from Germany perform during the closing ceremony of the X Ibero American Theatre Festival.









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