May 19 2008
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Anti-Immigrant Violence in Johannesburg
12 dead, over 50 injured, 200 arrested, 3,000 left destitute
“International medical and relief group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said the thousands of foreigners left destitute now amounted to a humanitarian crisis. ’I have been to many refugee camps and situations, and this definitely is along those lines,’ the group’s spokesman, Dr Eric Goemaere, said… . ‘I have treated bullet wounds, beaten people, rape victims and the people are terrified.’”
I love South Africa and this is just so sad. I really hope they are able to pull it together, but the situation doesn’t look hopeful.
The photo is from the NY Times
The news article quoted is from All Africa