Most executions take place after sentences are imposed at rallies in front of massive crowds.. A British aid worker was ambushed and fatally shot by Ugandan rebels in southern Sudan. Collin Lee, 67, and his wife were traveling from Uganda to the southern Sudanese town of Yei on Saturday when their vehicle was ambushed by the rebels, said Andreas Zetterlund, spokesman for the International Aid Services agency for which Lee worked. The attack was the second time the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebels have targeted aid workers in their 19-year insurgency in northern Uganda that they fight from rear bases in neighboring Sudan.Lee's wife, who is pregnant, was uninjured in the attack, and apparently recuperating in a hospital in northwestern Uganda.Ugandan soldiers and troops from the Sudan People's Liberation Army, in control of large areas of southern Sudan, rescued the aid workers and their driver on Sunday.In October, at least two aid agencies indefinitely suspended their work in northern Uganda after Lord's Resistance Army rebels killed two aid workers in two separate ambushes.The Lord's Resistance Army is made up of the remnants of a northern rebellion that began after Museveni, a southerner, took power in 1986. The executed include those found guilty offences such as bribery, embezzlement and stealing petrol Innocent people are frequently killed. Death penalty China executes about 10,000 people a year. Amnesty International says that in any three-month period, it kills more of its people than the rest of the world does over three years.
Natwar Singh will remain in the cabinet until the end of that inquiry, demoted to Minister without Portfolio. The Prime Minister will temporarily take over the foreign ministry.. But in India, the scandal could not have come at a worse time. Indians were already digesting the revelation that many of the country's most senior political figures were on the payroll of the KGB during the Cold War in a book published last month. Now they are faced with new allegations of corruption in the government.For Natwar Singh, who was leading calls for India to be given a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, and the Congress Party to be accused of taking bribes from Saddam Hussein is a serious blow.India has ordered its own judicial inquiry into the allegations. The ruling Congress Party was also named in the report as having illegally profited from Iraqi oil sales.
Both Congress and Mr Singh have denied any wrongdoing.While it does not specify why they got allocations, the report does detail similar cases in which foreign politicians were paid in this way for backing the Iraqi regime.The Bush administration has been accused of using the scandal as ammunition against the UN. Natwar Singh was stripped of his post after an hour-long meeting with the Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh. He had been refusing to resign for several days . The naming of a senior government minister in the report has rocked India, but Mr Singh's dismissal may not be enough to quell the scandal. India's Foreign Minister became the first political casualty of the Iraq oil-for-food scandal yesterday when he was dismissed after being named in the Volcker report as one of thousands of politicians and companies alleged to have illegally profited from the programme. And so, while her country changes around her, Burma's indomitable "Titanium Orchid" remains in Rangoon, a staunch advocate of democracy, while the generals switch their lair and devise new ways to try to retain their grip on power.. Her passion for Burma meant she frequently sacrificed contact with her two sons, who now live in Britain.While she was locked away, her British husband, the Oxford don Michael Aris, died of prostate cancer in 1999.