As thousands of aftershocks continue to ripple across the region, people are using portable toilets outside their homes - and some continue living in their condemned houses, with no other place to go.
But their incarceration, their vicious solitary confinement – a form of torture if ever there was one – and their relations, not just with their fellow condemned prisoners but with their guards, is a remarkable story.
Although there is a long history of critical study of Islam, and there have been scholars and Muslim religious leaders who read many of its passages more freely or metaphorically, Muslim fundamentalists — like Protestant fundamentalists with their Bible — condemn any reading of the Koran that is not purely literal.
Along with their ills, the condemned suffer the "three plagues" - "boredom, loneliness, and helplessness".
Mr. Young made no distinction between the Vietnam War, during which Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young earned a reputation for political activism, and the war in Iraq, which their tour condemned with songs like "Let's Impeach the President".
It concluded by calling on all Libyan diplomatic representatives around the world "to stand with their people and condemn the crimes that are being committed against their people".
I met recently with several Chavistas connected with the government who condemned their allies' denial of the opposition's right to speak.
Photography is prohibited on the feared Nusakambangan island and families claimed they were banned from recording their last moments with the condemned men, Australian media reported.
'By each let this be heard,' urges Wilde, as he forces his readers to contemplate their own kinship with the condemned man in prison.
This year, however, they will not get a chance to salve their pain, as the 0-0 home draw with Leverkusen condemned them to the bottom of their group.
