- Note - If this is true for car hijacking... then shouldn't
it be more so for the murders of white farmers? -Jan
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- JOHANNESBURG -- Research
into hijackings and hijackers in Gauteng found that the choice of a victim
was determined by "race hatred" in 30% of cases.
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- The report by Technikon SA's department of public safety
and criminal law claimed that victims, whose "cultural group"
differed from that of the hijacker, "experienced more violence"
despite obeying the hijacker's orders and not resisting.
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- Rudolph Zinn interviewed 30 convicted hijackers in Gauteng
prisons for his research. These convicted criminals performed 423 hijackings
over a period of four-and-a-half years.
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- The report said that 56% of these hijackers did not care
who the victims were. "There was however a trend where 30% of the
black hijackers targeted only white victims.
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- "One respondent said that they never hijacked black
people because the victim would visit a sangoma or inyanga and will use
muti to punish the hijacker."
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- Zinn said that most of the hijackings (93%) mentioned
in the report happened between 1995 and 1999. "It is therefore possible
that there has since been a change in race relationships."
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- He also found that in 89% of the cases, hijackers did
not care about the gender of their victim. 70% indicated that, if they
had a choice of two similar vehicles, they would rather choose the one
with only one occupant.
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- In 85% of the cases, the victim was left on the scene
without any serious injuries. In 11% of the hijackings, the victims were
shot because they did not obey the hijackers' commands.
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- Up to 37% of hijackers prefer not to shoot the victim
in the car, because the car must then be cleaned before it can be sold.
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- The report said 93% of hijackers would rather shoot their
victims than put their own lives in danger or be arrested. One of the respondents
said that bystanders and eyewitnesses, who try to intervene during a hijacking,
would be shot.
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- http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1431527,00.html
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