The Reverend Nicolau Costa,a Roman Catholic priest in Kuito, Angola, is featured on thecover this month for his unrelenting work as an unofficial andunpaid investigator of human rights violations by governmentsoldiers and police officers. "As a priest I go everywhere,mostly by foot, but the population is traumatized to such anextent that many people don't complain anymore," explained FatherCosta. "But it's hard for me to keep quiet. I speak what I feel,what I see. What I see is horrible." In recent years, the RomanCatholic Church has become one of the most important . . . [Full Text]
This article has been cited by other articles:
D. S. Miller Visualizing the Corrosive Community: Looting in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Space and Culture,
February 1, 2006;
9(1):
71 - 73.
[Abstract][PDF]