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Award of Excellence
Tomas van Houtryve TIME Asia
"Rebellion"
A Maoist rebel soldier wearing a Britney Spears
t-shirt stands among a battalion of other soldiers of the People's Liberation
Army, First Brigade, Mid Division during a drill in a schoolyard in the
village of Gairigaon, Nepal on Wednesday, 16 February 2005. The rebels have
been trying to overthrow Nepal's Hindu monarchy and replace it with a
communist republic during nearly ten years of conflict. Over 12,000 people
have died in the fighting. Many of the rebel soldiers are no older that 15.
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