Of course the trail was a joke, the country is corrupt as fuk, the outcome was sorted before the first days trail.
Totally normal innit.
Way it is and no amount of bitching will change it.
like it or not, sooner or later, this country will have to drag itself into the 21st century. The fact that the people and the goverment are ill equipped for it would indicate the latter.
The naive ignorance of foreigners is no bar to this process.