Sir, - I have always thought of The Irish Times as a bastion of good taste, but I must say that in publishing (August 29th, page 13) the picture of a burned Tutsi being dragged by a mob through the streets of Kinshasa, you overstepped the bounds of decency and sensitivity.
It is bad enough to read of such a horrific event without having to see it in graphic detail. That poor, blackened body was so like a joint of barbecued meat it made one nauseated, and the jeering, cheering mob surrounding it was shocking in the extreme.
Please, please, save us from such dreadful pictures, and may God have mercy on the soul of that poor, unfortunate man. But can he forgive those, created in his likeness, who have such contempt for human life? - Yours etc., Vera Hughes,
Moate, Co Westmeath.