'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...ots/index.html


deliberate misleading to see reaction and racism

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the government takes your money, while providing you a place to make that money, and because of that protection, which you PAY for, they expect and demand more tribute.... Yurt

Whites?

Considering it was blacks who did this in the 80's, and its in the "poorest" areas, any evidence that its whites committing the crimes?

only whites lynch, haven't you heard. only whites are responsible for all the evil in the world, haven't you heard.

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the government takes your money, while providing you a place to make that money, and because of that protection, which you PAY for, they expect and demand more tribute.... Yurt

Race-baiter

yup, you must have read the white print at the bottom of the OP, you get a star

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the government takes your money, while providing you a place to make that money, and because of that protection, which you PAY for, they expect and demand more tribute.... Yurt

No, I didn't until now.

How is it okay to race-bait in that manner, though?

Nobody actually thinks that. Thats just a dishonest characterization of someones view.

Bullshit, you have repeated ad nauseum that WHITES are the only ones in the US capable of "bad" racism.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

If I've said that ad nauseum, you won't have any trouble finding a quote then, will you?

I don't need to, you repeat it daily.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

because it shows the idiocy of those who act as if only whites are capable and responsible for racism and evil in the world.

talk about dishonest genius, tell me how i mischaractorized this or recant your false accusation.

“This country was founded for whites and everything that has happened in it has emerged from the white perspective. What we need is the destruction of whiteness, which is the source of human misery in the world.” -- James Cone

Theologically, Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man 'the devil.'

http://usmessageboard.com/showthread.php?t=54229

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the government takes your money, while providing you a place to make that money, and because of that protection, which you PAY for, they expect and demand more tribute.... Yurt

I know you probably don't see it, but you aren't acting much differently than Cone.

i disagree, i do not espouse that all blacks are bad as they are responsible for all blacks racism and i do not espouse that we need to destroy blackness as it is the source of misery in this world.

i admitted to being misleading, which you admitted to reading, thus, you know full well i do not believe that which i wrote. so i am not sure how you come to this unsupported conclusion.

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the government takes your money, while providing you a place to make that money, and because of that protection, which you PAY for, they expect and demand more tribute.... Yurt

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James Cone posts on USMB? Interesting, that.

What year was that written again, btw?

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??? are you drunk? who said he posts here? what diff does it make, he has not recanted those words. are MLK's words irrelevant because they were spoken during the same era?

now, again, explain how i mischaracterized his words or apologize for your lie.

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the government takes your money, while providing you a place to make that money, and because of that protection, which you PAY for, they expect and demand more tribute.... Yurt