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Libya has certainly driven other African atrocities off the front pages.

A few days ago I watched on Aljazeera just about the most appalling scenes I have ever witnessed on TV. A large crowd had taken a group of prisoners. They then poured petrol over them and set them on fire. The sight of naked men writhing in agony while their bodies gradually turned to shrivelling lumps of burning flesh as the skin disappeared was almost unbearable. Thank God there was no sound.

There will be no repercussions, of course. And nothing of this appeared anywhere else in the media as far as I can judge.

Meanwhile Mugabe continues on his murderous way without a peep from the ‘international community’ (whatever that is). In the run-up to his next phony election (which the African Union will immediately declare to be ‘free and fair’) his thugs are randomly killing those thought to be MDC supporters, beating-up almost anyone they choose and generally intimidating the population by systematic brutality in the urban areas as well as in the bush – a relatively new development which shows the total contempt for ‘world opinion’ (whatever that is).

MDC Cabinet ministers have been arrested, jailed in one of Mugabe’s stinking prisons, beaten up and charged with ludicrous offences. Poor old Morgan Tsvangirai is powerless and must go in daily fear of the same fate as befell his wife.

And what has the UN, the liberal media, the world collective of bleeding hearts got to say about all this?

That’s right!