Barely a week after the brutal murder of Guinea–Bissau’s long serving authoritarian President, Nino Vieira, some graphic images have started to surface that give the reader an idea of the gruesomeness of it all. Below we reproduce some photos courtesy of the AP. Viewer discretion is urged, as some of the images are disturbing.
After President Vieira was shot, he was still alive, soldiers then took his bleeding body to his mother-in-law's house and with a machet, cut him into pieces.
Family of the former President in mourning
Eyewitnesses show the devastation on the slain president's private house during the attack that claimed his life.
The bomb blast that killed General Tagme Wai
After many year's of independence, life remains dismal as pigs and humans rummage scarce resources.
After the president was killed, his house was looted by renegade soldiers.
One of the machets used in the mutilation of President Nino's Vieira's body.
The macabre murder scene of a once powerful and brutal African dictator who like Samuel Doe was mutilated by his own people.