At least now we know those million-o-share walls were not roadblock, and the constant, grinding 100,000 top up the sell-side triggered every sale were not manipulation by insto's before a good news run. It was a good old fashioned, those in the know pre bad news sell off instead.
edit: it is also good to shake some big traders out as well. More liquidity to come back in later.
Could be worse, to be honest I was starting to think there was a serious issue in Mali with the amount of shares that kept being sold off...more than 1 person was clearly getting out.