They tied the body to a stake. Around that wooden pole a hole was dug, half a meter deep. Dozens of people encircled it.

One by one, slowly gathering speed, and working more and more as a group, those people threw stones – dozens upon dozens of stones – at the body which could find no escape. A few dozen stones struck the chest and groin. Others hit the head. Some pierced the eyeballs, smashed the nose, gashed the forehead. Blood flo