They're hacking up the immigrants in South Africa.
Gangs weilding axes marched through the streets. (Telegraph)
Over 13,000 immigrants have fled their homes during the xenophobic attacks.
A crowd, armed with clubs, machetes and axes, goes on a rampage during violent xenophobic clashes on the outskirts of Johannesburg. President Thabo Mbeki has made an impassioned appeal for South Africans to respect the dignity of foreigners as calls grew for troops to be sent in to stamp out xenophobic violence. (AFP/Gianluigi Guercia)
The Zulu based Inkatha Party is accused of organizing the attacks against the immigrants.
All Africa reported:
The violence that is targeting foreign nationals in South Africa on Wednesday spread to the volatile Zulu heartland of KwaZulu Natal.
At least 24 people have already been killed in the wave of attacks that erupted last week. Locals accuse the foreigners of taking away their jobs and fuelling the high crime rate in the country. Six immigrants were wounded when mobs attacked a Nigerian owned tavern in Durban Wednesday. Hundreds of people armed with bottles and stones rampaged through the area attacking Nigerians. An ANC official in the area accused the Zulu based Inkatha Freedom Party of organising the attacks. The IFP meanwhile denied the allegations and issued a statement saying they were saddened by the xenophobic attacks.
Over 3 million Zimbabweans are thought to be in South Africa and are bearing the brunt of the violence. The majority have fled political violence and economic hardship in Zimbabwe. Migrants from other African countries have been caught up in the violence. Thousands have now fled their homes and sought sanctuary in police stations, churches and premises used by aid groups. Officials on Wednesday began serious discussion on whether the army should be deployed to quell the unrest. President Thabo Mbeki's senior aide Essop Phahad confirmed that police, defence and justice departments were discussing possible troop deployment. The police have already asked the army for help with equipment to use in quelling the violence.
Rioters and residents from Reiger park flee as South African police fire rubbber bullets during clashes on the outskirts of Johannesburg on May 20, 2008. South African President Thabo Mbeki called in troops Wednesday to halt attacks on foreigners as the death toll from more than a week of violence nearly doubled and violence began to spread. (AFP/Gianluigi Guercia)
Previously:
HORROR In Johannesburg-- Immigrants Beaten & Burned Alive
Disgusting. Where is Tutu?
ReplyDeleteI'm expecting UN Human Rights Commission to send the Senegal representative anytime now.
These are all terrible pictures I've seen. It is good you're showing the truth GP.
It is easy to ask where MSM was on this story. But where has Fox been? Nothing tonight so far. Have they mentioned anything?
Inkhata and the Zulus (as opposed to the Tswana and Xhosa, for ex) were the problem when I lived there, too.
ReplyDelete(The MSM is probably too busy digging up some candles-in-the-dark story about how the big bad Israel Goliath is causing a genocide by not providing the fuel that the Gazans wouldn't accept.)
Good for you, GP, for the coverage.
Just goes to show that the U.S. is the greatest country in the world.
ReplyDeleteMost of us are furious at the invasion of illegals taking our jobs, but do we necklace them? Do we hold up knives and promise to stab them in the face?
Of course not, because we're civilized.
Yet the world criticizes us anyway.
Hey, world?
Cram it.
Just goes to show that the U.S. is the greatest country in the world.
ReplyDeleteMost of us are furious at the invasion of illegals taking our jobs, but do we necklace them? Do we hold up knives and promise to stab them in the face? Of course not, because we're civilized.
Yet the world criticizes us anyway.
Hey, world?
Cram it.
Hmmm, even America's Democrats weren't this bad...
ReplyDeleteJust ask Larry Elder...
I would hardly refer to putting a tire around someone's neck, filling it with petro, and setting it ablaze, necklacing someone. It certainly is strange how people committing evil acts always use semantics to determine a word to downplay the truth. This is pure evil.
ReplyDeleteIt's inspiring to see how far black Africans have come after throwing off the yoke of white oppression that was the sole source of all their ills.
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