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Damocles

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/22/southafrica.riots/index.html?eref=rss_mostpopular

'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 throwback to the 1980s apartheid-era lynching tactic of "necklacing," which was widely used in the townships at the time.

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/22/southafrica.riots/index.html?eref=rss_mostpopular

'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 throwback to the 1980s apartheid-era lynching tactic of "necklacing," which was widely used in the townships at the time.

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More at link...

South Africe, while arguably the most developed African state, is a scary as hell place. They make the crime problem in America look like a joke, and there's racist riots on the streets all the time.
 
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