South African Deploys Army To Areas Hit By Anti-Immigrant Violence

New York Times: South African Army Deployed in Areas Hit by Anti-Immigrant Violence

South Africa deployed troops on Tuesday to areas recently hit by the surge in anti-immigrant attacks that has claimed seven lives and exposed the government’s inability to stop the violence.

Soldiers were sent to support the police in Alexandra, a poor, predominantly black township in Johannesburg where South African men were photographed fatally stabbing a Mozambican man over the weekend. A couple from Zimbabwe suffered injuries from a shooting in Alexandra on Monday night.

Though the township had otherwise quieted down the past two nights, the government made a show of dispatching the army there on Tuesday, perhaps stung by growing criticism that its slowness in responding to this wave of violence had helped it spread.

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