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Migrants targeted for fiery deaths in South Africa

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People are being burned at the stake and killed in South Africa as panic over high food prices has swept through parts of this nation.

The brutal apartheid-era practice of setting opponents on fire has been revived in this country's crowded, litter-strewn shantytowns. But now the victims are foreign migrants. Anger over unemployment and rising prices and simmering resentment against illegal foreign migrants have exploded into xenophobic violence in South Africa, with at least 22 people slain in the last 10 days.

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