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Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — Libya’s transitional government picked an engineering professor and longtime exile as its acting prime minister Monday, with the new leader pledging to respect human rights and international law.

The National Transitional Council elected Abdurrahim El-Keib, an electrical engineer who has held teaching posts at the University of Alabama and Abu Dhabi’s Petroleum Institute, to the post with the support of 26 of the 51 members who voted. El-Keib emerged victorious from a field that initially included 10 candidates.

“This is a new Libya,” El-Keib told reporters. “It’s been 42 years with our friends and people all around the world dealing with a brutal dictator, so concerns are in order, but I want to tell you there should be none of those.

“We expect the world to understand that we have national interests as well, and we expect them to respect this,” he said. “In fact, we demand respect of our national rights and national interests. In return, we promise respect and dealing according to international law.”

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But in response to questions about allegations of human rights abuses by the revolutionary forces that toppled longtime strongman Moammar GGadhafi, El-Keib said Libyans needed time to sort things out.

“I also need to remind myself that the Libyan revolution ended just recently in Bani Walid, Sirte, and in Tripoli only about two months ago,” he said. “We beg you , the media, to give us the opportunity and the time to think through all the issues that have been raised by yourself as well as other Arab media. But we guarantee you that we are after building a nation that respects human rights and that does not permit abuse of human rights, but we need time.”

El-Keib, an NTC member representing Tripoli, has been a member of the Libyan opposition. He is to hold the prime minister’s job while Libya writes a constitution and prepares for a national election to vote in a new government, and said he plans to meet a deadline to form a new government within a month of the October 23 declaration of liberation that followed Gadhafi’s killing.

It was not immediately clear when he returned to Libya from the United States, where he had lived since 1975. According to his university bios, he earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Tripoli in 1973, a master’s at the University of Southern California in 1976 at a Ph.D. at North Carolina State in 1984.

He joined the Alabama faculty in 1985 as an assistant professor and became a full professor in 1996, teaching in the university’s electrical and computer engineering department and serving as director of the engineering school’s Energy Systems and Power Quality Center, according to a university directory.

He is currently listed as “former faculty” on the website of The Petroleum Institute, which said he served as chairman of its electrical engineering department and lists him as an expert in power system economics, planning and controls.

CNN’s Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this report.

Tokyo (CNN) — The decommissioning of four reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will likely take more than 30 years to complete, according to a report by Japanese officials.

The draft report, released by Japan’s Atomic Energy Commission of the Cabinet Office on Friday, said the removal of debris — or nuclear fuel — should begin by the end of 2021.

“We set a goal to start taking out the debris within a 10-year period, and it is estimated that it would take 30 years or more (after the cold shutdown) to finish decommissioning because the process at Fukushima would be complicated,” the report states.

Last month, the plant’s owner — Tokyo Electric Power Company — said engineers might be able to complete the cold shutdown of damaged reactors by the end of the year.

Yukiya Amano, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday that operators of the plant “are now confident that the so-called cold shutdown will be achieved by the end of the year.”

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Temperatures in the three reactors where meltdowns occurred in the wake of the historic March 11 earthquake and tsunami have already been brought down below 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit), but the company has to maintain those conditions for some time before declaring the reactors in cold shutdown, Tokyo Electric spokesman Yoshikazu Nagai said.

Experts have said it will take years — perhaps decades — to fully clean up the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Hydrogen explosions blew apart the No. 1 and No. 3 reactor housings, while another hydrogen blast is suspected to have damaged the No. 2 reactor. Fires believed caused by heat from the No. 4 spent fuel pool damaged that unit’s reactor building.

The atomic energy commission’s report noted it took 10 years to remove nuclear fuel after the 1979 Three Mile Island disaster in the United States. The commission predicted removing fuel at Fukushima would require more time because the situation is more severe.

CNN’s Matt Smith contributed to this report.

Athens, Greece (CNN) — Stock markets in the United States and Europe dropped dramatically Tuesday after Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou stunned the world by calling a national referendum on international aid for his country.

The referendum could theoretically force Greece to crash out of the euro and send shock waves through the global financial system.

Papandreou is seeking public backing for the bail-out deal, which took months to hammer out. The deal would see the country’s sky-high debts cut in half, but it comes with strings attached which have led to angry demonstrations in the streets of Greece.

International lenders are demanding that Athens raise taxes, sell off state-owned companies, and slash government spending — which means firing tens of thousands of state workers.

German and French markets were down more than 4% in afternoon trading Tuesday, and the Dow Jones plunged more than 250 points at the opening before recovering very slightly.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy will discuss Europe’s debt crisis with German Chancellor Angela Merkel by phone Tuesday, his office announced.

The announcement of the referendum rattled Papandreou’s hold on power Tuesday, as a lawmaker defected from his party, leaving him with a majority of only two in Parliament.

Milena Apostolaki announced her resignation from the PASOK party, saying the call for a referendum was “a deeply divisive procedure.”

The European debt crisis claimed its first American victim shortly before Papandreou announced the referendum on Monday, as MF Global filed for bankruptcy protection, leaving top Wall Street creditors holding more than $2 billion in debt.

The commodities and derivatives broker was run by ex-Sen. Jon Corzine, a former head of Goldman Sachs.

Greece’s opposition leader Antonis Samaras called for snap elections Tuesday, but it is unlikely he has the votes to force one.

Papandreou has called for a vote of confidence later this week, separate from his call for a referendum on the international bail-out.

One expert called the surprise plan for a referendum “a political gamble which adds further uncertainty to the European debt crisis.”

“The prime minister will be hoping for a vote in favor to strengthen his mandate, but if the Greek population votes against, it will leave the IMF and Greece’s European partners in a very difficult situation,” said Gary Jenkins of Evolution Securities.

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“Clearly opens a can of worms because the referendum vote could go one of two ways,” said Frederic Neumann, a senior economist for HSBC.

“If approved, a vote of confidence in government’s handling of the situation … if calmer heads prevail and it can rationally be explained to the public, I wouldn’t discount the measure being approved.

“The problems for the markets, until the referendum is passed, there is added uncertainty. That’s just an added headache.”

Besides the Greek debt reduction plan, last week’s EU deal pledged to quadruple the EU’s bailout fund to about $1.38 trillion and raise the capital required to help cushion the region’s banks from financial shocks.

CNN’s Irene Chapple, Catherine Tymkiw Kevin Voigt, and James Partington contributed to this report.

(CNN) — President Barack Obama announced recently that about 100 U.S. troops are being deployed to Central Africa to help “apprehend and remove” the elusive Joseph Kony and his top commanders of the Lord’s Resistance Army.

It’s not the first time the United States has gone in to help put an end to the marauding, murdering gang known as the Lord’s Resistance Army — LRA, for short.

The LRA has butchered, enslaved and displaced people in Uganda and Central Africa for two decades. Although its brand of terrorism doesn’t target the United States, Washington has listed it as a terrorist group. The U.S. decision to help go after Kony is a strategic — as well as a humanitarian — one. Africa is a frontier for terrorism. Uganda is fighting Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia — which helps the United States — so in turn, the U.S. is helping Uganda fight the LRA.

The Lord’s Resistance Army began in northern Uganda in 1987 as an opposition force to leader Yoweri Museveni. Kony sees himself as a prophet who has said he wants to rule by following the Ten Commandments.

Instead, he has ruled — and thrived — by breaking a lot of those commandments. The Ugandan army — with the help of the U.S. military — has tried for years to take him and his leadership out. The International Criminal Court has had a warrant out for him since 2005.

The Lord’s Resistance Army replenishes its ranks by abducting villagers — men, women and children — brainwashing them and forcing them to fight. Or to serve as sex slaves for commanders. LRA members survive by staying on the move constantly and stealing food and provisions. Last month, according to researchers, an LRA band raided a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo soon after the World Food Programme had distributed food supplies there.

So what is LRA leader Kony’s secret? How has he evaded justice to operate his band of marauders and murderers with impunity for decades?

Here are five reasons some experts give:

1. He uses terror strategically.

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2. Kony exploits regional politics and borders.

He got support from the Sudanese government for years. And the LRA uses borders as a defense: It hasn’t been in Uganda for years. That’s made it hard for the Ugandan army to pursue Kony. The militia is split and is constantly moving between the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and southern Sudan.

3. Uganda’s efforts to get Kony have flagged.

Uganda’s army has been stretched to the hilt, fighting Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia as part of an African Union force.

4. Kony is a smart strategist.

His band travels in small groups, and they’re a moving target. And he has informants — with cell phones. The last time the U.S. military helped Uganda go after Kony, in 2008, it used a traditional air and ground assault. Kony and his leaders escaped, then massacred hundreds of people in revenge. This time, the United States is bringing Special Forces (and probably other intelligence agents) with equipment and tactics to track him in the jungle.

5. Kony mixes military discipline with cultish charisma and spiritual tactics to keep captives in line — and sometimes, to keep the loyalty even of those who escape.

Allen, the London School of Economics professor, has talked to women who have escaped the Lord’s Resistance Army but are still loyal to their LRA “husbands.”

“He cultivates this image of himself as a medium for the power of the spirit and at other times, he presents himself as a ruthless military leader,” said Ned Dalby, Central Africa researcher with the International Crisis Group. “So he’s able to maintain cohesion as a group and maintain the loyalty of his fighters.”

Dalby said some former LRA fighters from northern Uganda have given a clue as to why some outside the group have stayed loyal to Kony.

“They expressed the feeling that because they were given a rank, they were given a certain purpose, and respect and authority,” Dalby said. “And then, once they’re outside the LRA, they find they’ve become just another poor person, trying to survive.”

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — The investigation into the suicide bombing that killed 17 people on Saturday suggests it was the work of the Pakistan-based Haqqani network, an Afghan official said Monday.

“We have some contacts and some evidence on the ground and some information about the vehicles used and the people used,” Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said, stressing that the results of the investigation were preliminary.

“This is another sophisticated attack by the operatives of the Haqqani network, and we are also optimistic to arrest some of their operatives in Kabul in the days ahead,” he said.

However, a spokesman for international forces in Afghanistan, which lost nine troops in the attack, said they have no indications yet that the Haqqani network was involved.

“All we have seen so far is that the Taliban have claimed responsibility. That doesn’t necessarily mean that it was them, but we have no other indications,” said Brig. Gen. Cartsen Jacobsen. “The case has to be looked at.”

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Another International Security Assistance Force spokesman, Lt. Col. Jimmie Cummings, added that their intelligence at this point gave no indication of the involvement of the Haqqanis.

The Saturday attack killed 13 people in a NATO convoy and four Afghan civilians. Nine of the 13 were American, including five U.S. troops. The blast also claimed the lives of two British civilians, a Kosovo national and a Canadian soldier.

U.S. officials have been increasingly vocal about the threat posed by the Haqqani network in recent months, arguing the organization has ties to Pakistani intelligence and enjoys safe havens in the country from whence it is able to launch attacks across the border in Afghanistan.

In September, then-U.S. Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen called the Haqqani network a “veritable arm of Pakistan’s intelligence.”

A Pentagon report on the war in Afghanistan released last week said that the ability of insurgents to flee to safe havens in Pakistan was the biggest risk to the effort to stabilize Afghanistan after nearly a decade of war. The report singled out the Haqqani network as one that has carried out major attacks.

Founded in Pakistan to fight against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, the Haqqani network has been blamed for killing more than 1,000 coalition and Afghan forces, including attacks on the U.S. Embassy and other targets in Kabul.

Pakistani officials have rejected claims that they support the group, but acknowledge that they are in contact with it.

This month, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acknowledged that U.S. representatives met with Haqqani officials to discuss the possibility of negotiations that would end hostilities.

(CNN) — The United States is cutting funding to the U.N. education and science agency UNESCO after the agency voted to accept a Palestinian bid for full membership, the U.S. State Department said Monday.

“Today’s vote by the member states of UNESCO to admit Palestine as member is regrettable, premature and undermines our shared goal of a comprehensive just and lasing peace in the Middle East,” said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.

“The United States will refrain from making contributions to UNESCO,” she said.

The United States was going to make a $60 million payment in November, and will now not do so, she said.

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Some U.S. lawmakers had called on the Obama administration to withhold funding to UNESCO if the measure was approved.

(CNN) — Could a Mexican drug cartel be the next target for a group of hackers known for online attacks against banks and government institutions?

A video purportedly from the international hacker ring Anonymous threatens the Zetas, warning that the names, photographs and addresses of cartel supporters can be published “if necessary.”

“We cannot defend ourselves with a weapon,” a masked man says. “But we can do this with their cars, homes, bars and whatever else they possess. It will not be difficult. All of us know who they are and where they are located.”

The man, wearing a suit and tie, claims the notoriously violent drug gang has kidnapped an Anonymous associate in the Mexican state of Veracruz.

“We demand his release,” says the man, who uses Mexican slang but speaks Spanish with a Castilian accent.

It’s unclear whether Anonymous is behind the October 6 video, which does not mention a victim’s name or provide details about the alleged abduction. The hacking group has no clear leader, and no official website.

“One thing that’s important to remember is that Anonymous is not an organization. It does not have a hierarchy. Basically it’s a collective of people who self-identify,” said Scott Stewart, vice president of tactical intelligence for the STRATFOR global intelligence firm. “Not everybody agrees and not everybody participates.”

Stewart said the video “absolutely” appears authentic.

“It’s part of the dynamic we’ve been watching with Anonymous activities in Mexico,” he said, noting that the video was similar to others the group has released and expresses similar sentiments. “It seems like they’re speaking up as the voice of those people who are in fear.”

In recent months, Anonymous has claimed responsibility for “paperstorm” campaigns, dropping fliers accusing officials in the Mexican state of Veracruz of corruption and connections with cartels.

The video purportedly posted by Anonymous this month says the alleged abduction occurred during a “paperstorm” campaign.

An Anonymous source told CNN that there were discussions about three weeks ago in Anonymous’ main online chat portal that suggested that members based in Mexico were going to target the Zetas.

The source said that Anonymous Mexican members claimed in online discussions to have information about politicians in Mexico who were corrupt and working with the Zetas. Anonymous members in Mexico appeared, based on their portal chats, to want to make this information available online, the source said.

On Monday, a Facebook page purportedly connected with a Latin America branch of Anonymous said the attack targeting the Zetas had been put on hold because of security and political concerns.

“We are searching for alternative actions,” said the post on The Anonymous Link’s page. CNN was unable to independently verity the website’s claim.

It’s too soon to tell whether Anonymous, which normally uses Internet attacks to disrupt website traffic, can combat the ruthless violence of drug cartels, Stewart said.

“This is like one of those 1950s horror movies, the Werewolf versus Frankenstein. They’re incompatible creatures that do warfare in different ways,” Stewart said.

Even if members of Anonymous use virtual weapons, he said, they could sustain real-life wounds.

“If they get identified as part of this, they could be beheaded,” he said.

As social media become an increasingly common battleground in Mexico’s drug war, the viral video fueled debate online.

Twitter was abuzz with word of the possible threat Monday, with some posts under the hashtag #OpCartel saying Anonymous had called off its plans to target the Zetas, and others questioning the legitimacy of the video.

“Was the #OpCartel Anonymous Hackers vs. Zetas story a highly publicized hoax?” SYoungReports wrote.

Other Twitter users criticized the group.

“Bits and bytes won’t work against bullets,” said a post on the Twitter account of Angeliner4life. “Don’t be dumb, you are messing with real killers.”

The most common mode of operation for Anonymous is launching distributed denial-of-service attacks, in which multiple people use scripts to access a website repeatedly, slowing it badly or shutting it down, if its servers can’t handle the traffic.

In the past few years, Anonymous has taken credit for disrupting a number of prominent websites, including those of PayPal, Master Card, Visa and the Church of Scientology.

Last month the group claimed it was targeting the Mexican government, launching attacks on a range of official websites, including those of Mexico’s defense and public safety ministries.

Online posts have become some of the loudest voices reporting violence in Mexico. In some parts of the country, threats from cartels have silenced traditional media. Sometimes even local authorities fear speaking out.

Last month attackers left ominous threats mentioning two websites on signs beside mutilated bodies dangling from a bridge in northern Mexico.

The message was clear: Post something we don’t like online and you’re next. “I am about to get you,” one sign said.

It was unclear who the two brutally slain victims were, or whether they had any connection to social media. But analysts said that case showed the prominent role technology has come to play in describing and denouncing violence in Mexico.

CNN’s Ashley Fantz, Doug Gross and CNNMexico.com’s Tania L. Montalvo contributed to this report.

(CNN) — The Arab League has called on Syria’s government to end all violence against its people, remove tanks and military vehicles from the streets of the country and release political prisoners, an official with the Arab organization told CNN Monday.

Arab countries made the proposal to Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem on Sunday in a meeting in Doha that the prime minister of Qatar called “clear and frank,” according to the Qatari national news agency.

The Arab League also proposed a dialogue between Syrian officials and opposition members in Cairo starting on Wednesday.

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The proposals include a time frame for compliance, the Arab League official said.

The Syrian delegation left Qatar without a response to the Arab League letter, which was presented on Sunday, according to the state-run Qatar News Agency.

In Tripoli, Libya, where NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced the end of the NATO campaign that helped oust longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi, the NATO leader said Syria’s leadership will face no such threat.

“NATO has no intention whatsoever to intervene in Syria,” Rasmussen told reporters. “I can completely rule that out. Having said that, I strongly condemn the crackdowns on the civilian population in Syria.”

Syrians aiming to write a new constitution for the strife-torn country met Monday for the first time, Syria’s state news agency reported Sunday after a weekend of intense violence.

President Bashar al-Assad this month announced the formation of a committee to draft a new constitution within four months, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported at the time. The October 15 announcement was one of several moves the government has made to defuse protests, but they have not calmed the situation in the country.

The committee’s official spokesman Dr. Sam Delleh, “said that the committee held two long sessions and discussed its work mechanisms and it visions regarding the draft constitution,” SANA said.

Thirteen people were reported killed Monday across the country, according to the Local Coordination Committees, an opposition group that organizes and documents protests. Eight deaths were reported in Homs, along with two each in Idlib and the village of Kafarnaboda in the province of Hama and one in Harasata, a suburb of Damascus.

Government forces killed six people they described as terrorists Saturday, and arrested 20, SANA reported Sunday. The agency said four members of the security forces were killed in the clashes.

More than 3,000 people have died since unrest broke out in Syria in mid-March, according to the United Nations.

CNN cannot independently confirm individual accounts of violence because Syria’s government restricts the activity of journalists.

Al-Assad, meanwhile, praised Russia’s support for his embattled government Sunday in his second interview with international news outlets in two days. Al-Assad told Russia’s Channel One television network that his government has been in “constant contact” with Moscow, a longtime ally, since the protests began.

He also thanked the Russians for vetoing a U.N. Security Council resolution in early October that would have condemned the Syrian response to the protests. China and Russia teamed up to kill the resolution, which had called for an immediate end to the clampdown.

“Russia is aware of the dangers of military or political intervention in the internal affairs of Syria,” al-Assad said. He said Syria expected the Russian government “will not only continue supporting Syria but also advocate world stability.”

The interview follows one published in Britain’s Sunday Telegraph, which billed it as al-Assad’s first with a Western journalist since the trouble started. Al-Assad told the newspaper that Western countries should not intervene in his country.

“Syria is the hub now in this region,” he said. “It is the fault line, and if you play with the ground, you will cause an earthquake. … Do you want to see another Afghanistan or tens of Afghanistans?

“Any problem in Syria will burn the whole region. If the plan is to divide Syria, that is to divide the whole region,” the British newspaper quoted al-Assad as saying.

While he admitted “many mistakes” had been made, the president also defended his security forces.

“We have very few police, only the army, who are trained to take on al-Qaeda,” al-Assad told the Sunday Telegraph. “If you sent in your army to the streets, the same thing would happen. Now, we are only fighting terrorists. That’s why the fighting is becoming much less.”

CNN’s Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, Arwa Damon and Salma Abdelaziz contributed to this report.

Mizoram, India (CNN) — The world’s population hits 7 billion this week, but Ziona, the patriarch of what may be the biggest family in the world, is not bothered.

“I don’t care about overpopulation in India … I believe God has chosen us to be like this (have big families). Those who are born into this family don’t want to leave this tradition so we just keep growing and growing,” he says with a smile.

Ziona, who only goes by his first name, has 39 wives, 86 children and 35 grandchildren.

Ziona’s father, Chana, founded the Christian sect in Baktwang village that promotes polygamy as God’s will. “I never wanted to get married but that’s the path God has chosen for me,” he says. “It’s not my wish to keep marrying again and again.”

All 160 family members live in a four-storey mansion perched on top of a remote village in the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram.

The state, neighboring Myanmar and Bangladesh, has one million residents, one of the lowest population densities in this country of 1.2 billion. Despite its natural beauty, special permits are required to enter the state, making tourism virtually non-existent.

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Four hours away from Mizoram’s only airport, in the isolated village of Baktwang, Ziona’s bright purple house with 22 bedrooms stands out.

The main room is a giant hall where the family cooks, eats and prays. The bedrooms are dormitory-style with an average of 20 beds, each double bed about a foot apart from the next. The children sleep with their mothers who take turns visiting the 69 year-old’s master bedroom.

“There is no discrimination amongst us, he treats us all equally,” fifth wife Twangi says.

Ziona first got married when he was 17 to Zathiangi, who is now 70. His youngest wife is 31.

As the eldest wife, Zathiangi calls all the shots in the kitchen so meal times are an efficient exercise.

Without much fuss, while some women of the house cook, others set the table, still others serve and clean.

“We cook 25 kilograms of rice, 40 kilograms of potatoes and 5 kilograms of lentils everyday,” Twangi says.

The family indulges in meat three times a week and for every non-vegetarian meal, 30 chickens are plucked and a giant pig is roasted.

But the sheer volume of food that needs to be cooked or plates that need to be washed doesn’t overwhelm the women of the house.

Like a well-oiled machine, everyone carries out their individual chore, so dinner for 160 is ready within an hour and utensils are washed and put away within minutes.

Even the children help out. Tiny 6-year-olds have become experts at plucking chickens, and everyone seems to get along.

“No fighting, never, we are all one family, there’s no other people here so we don’t fight,” says sixth grandson Hmingthamzauva, one of the few in the household who speaks English.

“Since we are used to living in a very big family when we go outside to study we actually feel very lonely,” he says laughing.

But while he likes living in a big family, he himself doesn’t want more than one wife.

“My grandfather is specially appointed by God to have as many wives as possible and to look after them. But for me, having one wife and one son is quite enough. There is no rule or tradition as such that we have to follow polygamy, for me it’s actually unbearable,” Hmingtahmzauva says.

Hmingtahmzauva says his great grandfather Chana, who also had multiple wives, had a spiritual revelation after he was expelled from the Catholic Church for his unusual lifestyle.

So Chana created his own polygamist sect, which now has a following of 400 families.

Ziona is the caretaker of the self-reliant sect. They grow their own crops and raise their own livestock.

“Everyone has a designated job. Some are doing carpentry work, some take care of the piggery and poultry farm and others cultivate crops,” Ziona says.

He has set up a school nearby for children of the community, the curriculum comes from the government but Ziona has added some sect-specific teachings.

“My father is the greatest god that we can have in this world, he has done so much for us,” says his eldest son Nunparliana, who has two wives and 14 children.

India is set to overtake China as the world’s most populous nation by 2030. But crowding and crumbling infrastructure in India’s booming cities don’t faze Ziona.

“I’m not troubled by the noise or the overcrowding. My mind remains at peace,” he says.

The family is not listed in the Guinness Book of World Records because Ziona says he doesn’t want the publicity. But as word gets out, Baktwang village and Ziona’s family may not remain so isolated.

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