Many of its players go on to play in college, where fighting is curtailed.
Mr. Jan, known to friends as Janu, is from the northwestern Swat Valley, where fighting erupted in 2009.
Graduates who lived on Monrovia's west side, where fighting raged most intensely, had no way of getting home.
LEXIE DEWEGEL,19, a shopper at Fashion Place Mall in Murray, Utah, where fighting erupted among 12,000 bargain hunters.
It is in the province of South Kivu, where fighting between different groups has dragged on in bursts for years.
With the exception of Romania, where fighting broke out in Bucharest as the year ended, these were revolutions without bloodshed.
Many also mourned the state of a sport, a culture or a world where fighting, it seems, is protected more than the fighters themselves.
Even in Benghazi, where fighting raged for weeks before NATO intervened to turn the tide against loyalists, casualties may not have been much higher than in Tripoli.
They reached Nabak, west of Damascus near the Lebanese border, where fighting overflowed sporadically and displaced families clustered during clashes in Homs and Qusayr to the north.
Venezuela's government recognizes the problems within its prisons, where fighting between gangs controlled by prans like Mr. Rodríguez contributes to a high number of killings.
The shocking scenes drew new focus to the region where fighting last summer killed more than 1,960 Palestinians and 67 Israelis.
