THE torched body lies in the dirt, at the side of the road.
In one torched village, several hundred were left homeless.Almost all local Muslims are from a recognised ethnic group, the Kaman.
The two huge fires that torched thousands of acres of forests and sagebrush and nearly destroyed Pioneertown, once a popular backdrop for Westerns, have had banner headlines in the Los Angeles Times; but then they were only 100 miles (160 km) east of the city.
In a West Bank village near Bethlehem, locals say that on October 4th hard-line Jewish settlers set fire to their mosque and torched copies of the Koran.
More than 300 classrooms have been torched in the remote, arid state since 2009, according to official counts.
As Ulster loyalists torched offices belonging to the non-sectarian Alliance party, bombarded police with missiles and bottles and threatened to turn Belfast City Hall into a slaughterhouse this week they were oblivious to an apposite event occurring south of the Irish border.
Municipal policeman Onesimo Rojas said masked protesters torched ballot boxes in at least eight places in the city.
Then came the riots of summer 2011, in which Enfield shops were looted and the Sony warehouse torched.
In Kinshasa, hundreds of protesters torched a town hall, while several inmates escaped from a prison and looters made off with police weapons.
Seven villagers in the far north of Cameroon were killed on Tuesday when they fought back against Boko Haram fighters who stole 70 cows and torched houses in Gaboua.
The attacks left seven dead and thousands displaced on the streets of South Africa's cities, shops were looted and torched, and South Africa's " rainbow nation" was thoroughly shaken: "The fabric of the nation is splitting at the seams," the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation said last week.
