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05/24/2008: "Tens of thousands of immigrants flee for home"

South Africa's bloodletting is a long way from the ethnic killings of Rwanda and Kenya. But at least 43 people have been murdered and tens of thousands forced from their homes as mobs hunted down African immigrants in a dozen Johannesburg suburbs and satellite townships. With it has come looting and rape.

Thousands of immigrants are fleeing home. About 15,000 Mozambicans crossed the border back to their country on Thursday alone. Others packed Johannesburg's bus and train stations looking for a way out. Many thousands are crammed into police compounds and community halls.

More than 2,000 immigrants, mostly Zimbabweans, are sheltering at the Central Methodist Church. They fill every space, sleeping on the pews, in the corridors, on the stairs. About a third are women and children. Makeshift defensive weapons are everywhere - bricks, wood from broken chairs, metal bars.

[ What would happen if people in western nations tried to drive out immigrants like that? We are told it's not nice behavior so we let the immigrants walk all over us instead. ]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/24/southafrica.zimbabwe