As reports by Human Rights Watch and formal documentation from the UN Human Rights Commission decry the worsening human rights situation in Côte D'Ivoire, many Ivoirians IRIN spoke with in Abidjan are appalled by recent acts of gruesome violence.

"We are seeing any and all forms of killing," said an Ivoirian human rights activist who requested anonymity. "It's sheer horror we're living hereŠ People are being burned alive and hacked to bits with machetes," he said, adding that the violence seemed to be spiralling out of control. IRIN, Tuesday 8th March 2011