Uganda, Oct. 29 -- I was horrified by two videos that were forwarded in one of my WhatsApp groups, depicting burn victims in the aftermath of the Kigogwa Town fuel tanker tragedy, which occurred in the afternoon on Tuesday, October 22, 2024.

In the first video, a Ugandan man is seen staggering in a daze in the neighbourhood, with skin burnt off his flesh and his clothes in tatters, as someone shouts at him in Luganda, "Go to the hospital!"

In the background, the overturned fuel tanker is ablaze, burning some shops and houses in the process. In the second video, the videographer is walking around a hospital, filming fuel tanker burn victims, who appear to be young Ugandan males in their twenties and thirties.

Most of them are lying on t...