Pogroms in SA

22 May 08

Illegal immigration in SA, from a friend there:

"It's pretty bad here. Illegal immigrants, coming down from the north, are rounded up by locals, bound, doused with petrol, and then set on fire. They've been thus murdered, by the hundreds. Of course, that includes only those who managed to get through the wilderness without being eaten. Many never make it through lion country! Angry locals accuse them of taking jobs away.

You can't blame illegals for trying to get into SA. They're starving to death where they are, disease-ridden hell-holes like Angola and Nigeria, indeed all of West Africa.

It's a small step from this kind of xenophobia to full-blown genocide, as occurred in Rwanda several years ago, and as had occurred in periodically in Africa for centuries. We all naively thought these spasmodic pogroms were a thing of the past. How foolish we were!

Sure, the Army has been sent in, but the 'army' of today isincompetent, like nearly every other government institution here. Many troopers tacitly support this kind of cruelty anyway. Among the rest of us, there is a desperate scramble for guns and ammunition right now.

This is South Africa, not twenty years ago, but now! The myth of the 'great miracle' of the 'Rainbow Nation' is fading fast. Of course, it never really existed, except in the minds of naive liberals, both here and in the USA.

I am heartbroken by what has become of my Country."

Comment: Me too!

/John