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Rwanda in the American South

bradhicks points out recent research here:

http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/378012.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States

http://users.bestweb.net/~rg/lynching_century.htm

The research into lynchings in the American South finds that 50% were used to obtain the holdings of well off black men at a pittance. Usually the lyncher was a poor white relative of a rich local person.

I was struck by the similarity to the situation in Rwanda and Kenya where poorer people attack richer people to obtain their land.