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S. Africa Deploys Troops as Immigrant Killings Spike

Posted May 22, 08 6:48 AM CDT in World 

(Newser) – South African president Thabo Mbeki has summoned troops to help counter a wave of anti-immigrant violence in the country, AFP reports. Mbeki called on soldiers after police requested help quelling mob violence that has claimed 42 lives, officials said. As many as 16,000 people have been displaced by the violence. Locals blame foreigners for high crime rates and taking jobs

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South Africans burn the belongings of foreigners who fled before taking over their plot in Reiger Park informal settlement outside Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, May 21, 2008.   (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Zimbabwean Lewis Dube is seen with his 2 years-old son Junior, outside the Germiston city hall, outside Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, May 21, 2008, Dube, a father of three boys, whose been living...   (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
Unidentified immigrants receive soup and bread from a local Muslim community inside the Germiston city hall, outside Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, May 21, 2008.   (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
A man from Malawi lays wounded as he waits for paramedics after he tried to return to his shack to gather his belongings in the Reiger Park informal settlement outside Johannesburg Wednesday.   (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
South African President Thabo Mbeki speaks at a news conference, Wednesday, April 16, 2008, at United Nations headquarters in New York.   (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)
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