Yurt
05-22-2008, 10:15 AM
'Necklace' lynching returns to South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNN) -- More than 40 people have been killed and 28,000 made homeless in anti-immigrant violence that has rocked the nation during the past week, authorities say.
Hundreds of people were also arrested as burning, looting and violence flared in townships in the city's poorest areas.
The country has also seen a disturbing throw back to the 1980s lynching tactic of "necklacing," which was widely used in the townships at the time.
Used on suspected informants, the "necklace" is a car tire, filled with petrol, put around the person's neck and set alight.
South Africa's army has been patrolling riot-hit townships to restore calm as the country counts the cost of the xenophobic attacks.
The army was drafted in to control the worst-affected areas and no new outbreaks of violence was reported Thursday.
Around 400 people have been arrested for crimes including murder, damage to property and causing a public disturbance.
The victims are mainly immigrants and refugees from other parts of Africa, including Zimbabwe, where a devastated economy has sent at least two million people across the border in search of a better life.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/22/southafrica.riots/index.html
it appears evil does not have a monopoly on any one skin color.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNN) -- More than 40 people have been killed and 28,000 made homeless in anti-immigrant violence that has rocked the nation during the past week, authorities say.
Hundreds of people were also arrested as burning, looting and violence flared in townships in the city's poorest areas.
The country has also seen a disturbing throw back to the 1980s lynching tactic of "necklacing," which was widely used in the townships at the time.
Used on suspected informants, the "necklace" is a car tire, filled with petrol, put around the person's neck and set alight.
South Africa's army has been patrolling riot-hit townships to restore calm as the country counts the cost of the xenophobic attacks.
The army was drafted in to control the worst-affected areas and no new outbreaks of violence was reported Thursday.
Around 400 people have been arrested for crimes including murder, damage to property and causing a public disturbance.
The victims are mainly immigrants and refugees from other parts of Africa, including Zimbabwe, where a devastated economy has sent at least two million people across the border in search of a better life.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/22/southafrica.riots/index.html
it appears evil does not have a monopoly on any one skin color.