Hume was also savagely attacked by members of his own SDLP, who felt that, in lending credibility to Sinn Fein, he was electorally sabotaging his own party.
Riot police grabbed Sannikov, pushed him to the ground and then beat him savagely.
Iraq is another case where Muslims who fall foul of the Isis brand of Islam are just as savagely persecuted as Christians.
"How are you going to hear your old self through that?" This savagely funny book satirises the empty rituals and political theatre that determine so much of our response to returned veterans.
I later asked him if it didn't stick in his gullet to have to suck up to the Tories when they were simultaneously cutting his budget so savagely.
The difference is that he has done so more savagely than the rest.
Their attacks were so indiscriminate and savagely over the top that the Independent Manchester United Supporters Associationn (Imusa) has been pursuing legal action against Italy's paramilitary police.
But it seems odd that a country built on giving people a second chance (and a country, incidentally, with one of the most forgiving bankruptcy laws in the world) should have turned against this principle so savagely when it comes to convicts.
Visitors from neighbouring Kazakhstan and other Central Asian states have told of demonstrations, savagely suppressed by security forces.
It was the third election in a row in which voters swung savagely against the incumbents.
Investment and jobs were savagely cut at the same time as exports stumbled.
