Man’s inhumanity to man – UPDATED

I have witnessed some sad things and heard talk of some really bad things. It makes my blood boil when young black people take the life of another in their ongoing post code wars. Worst still when innocent people are caught in the cross fire.  I thought humans couldn’t do much more to make my skin crawl, until today.

Updated: Today I watched a video of a Nigerian man being tortured and burned alive (see end of page). The video came with a warning but even then, you just can’t imagine how sick it’s going to make you. A man was brutalised and murdered for stealing a necklace, not for being gay as previously informed. Regardless of his alleged crime, this can not surely be justice.

The video is quite clear with very little camera shake. What does that mean for me? Someone took the time to video this atrocity knowing it was for real. It was not a horror movie, it was real. Add to that the many people who stood around and watched this happen. I can only shake my head and mourn.

‘Many and sharp the num’rous ills
Inwoven with our frame!
More pointed still we make ourselves
Regret, remorse, and shame!
And Man, whose heav’n-erected face
The smiles of love adorn, -
Man’s inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!

Robert Burns From Man was made to Mourn: A Dirge, 1785:

If you feel the need to watch this video please be fully warned, it is sickening. I hope you can feel some compassion despite his alleged crime. He was a human being first and foremost.