Blood, tears and cocoa

Exhausted, topless, and brushing his smelly sweat off with a towel, before putting on a green t-shirt in his hotel room. That's the humiliating picture of the yesterday-arrested former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo, which marked the end of his 11 year long reign in the country. The footage may not be as shocking as that of Saddam Hussein while he was being dragged out of his den, with clotted, unshaven beard and a mug gaping for a tooth exam. But it's still nearly as spectacular and symbolic.

( An end to one bad thing and possibly a beginning of another )

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