I had never heard of this before until today. Horrific.
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.
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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 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.
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Some say the attacks stem from a long-standing feeling among locals that the number of immigrants in South Africa results in shortages of jobs and essential needs
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/22/southafrica.riots/?iref=mpstoryview
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by Silent Bob
