We have all, at one time or another, narrowly escaped death, seen neighbours slaughtered, their houses set ablaze.
The photos also show rows of houses set ablaze and children hiding in dirt ditches.
The house was set ablaze, his mother's body lying inside as the fire spread through the terrace of four homes.
The city medical examiner's office uncovered traces of smoke in the lungs of a mother found dead with her four children in a burnt home on Staten Island last week, suggesting that she was alive when the house was set ablaze.
The mother was strangled in 2007 after an ordeal that began when two men burst into the home, and her two girls, 11 and 17, died after being tied to their beds and the house was set ablaze.
In his testimony on Tuesday, Dr. Petit, his voice never breaking, recalled that one of the assailants spoke for both intruders, seemed to direct the action and announced in a sinister voice just before the house was set ablaze, "Don't worry, everything will be over soon".
In addition to Mr. Koka's death, there were the slayings of a Roma man and woman, who were shot after their house was set ablaze last November in Nagycsecs, a town about an hour's drive from Tiszalok in northeastern Hungary.
A construction project across town – in East Baltimore, where a church was building senior housing – got set ablaze and was televised across the country.
More than 300 houses were set ablaze leaving the village of Hallanagar without food and shelter.
In the end, the defense says, there were more than 140,000 Twitter messages about the trial that dealt with rape and children tied to their beds in a house that was set ablaze.
