The title of this postis a quotation of Neville Chmaberlain's about events in Czechoslovakia in 1938.
Of course, what's happening at the moment in Guinea, Central Africa, is not considered by the "great powers" to be of strategic importance. I only stumbled across this story by accident. No doubt thousands of other people have been killed by soldiers and policeman over the world this week. So it goes.

Police opened fire as about 50,000 protesters tried to gather in Conakry [AFP]
At least 157 opposition supporters are now believed to have died after Guinea's troops opened fire on a mass protest in the capital, Conakry, a human rights group has said.

"According to hospital sources that we have spoken to, 157 dead and 1,253 injured have been registered," Thierno Maadjou Sow, the president of the Guinean Human Rights Organisation, said on Tuesday.

Sow told the Reuters news agency that the figure did not include the bodies of an unknown number of demonstrators killed which were never delivered to hospital in the city.

Opposition parties, which organised the demonstration amid speculation that Moussa Dadis Camara, the country's military leader, would stand in forthcoming elections, had earlier said that at least 128 people had died.

The shootings took place on Monday after about 50,000 protesters gathered outside a stadium in defiance of an official ban on the demonstration