Necklacing is a method of extrajudicial summary execution and torture carried out by forcing a rubber tyre drenched with petrol around a victim's chest and arms, and setting it on fire. The term "necklace" originated in the mid-to-late 1980s, in the black townships of apartheid-era South Africa, where suspected apartheid collaborators were publicly executed in this fashion by members of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) and the South African Youth Congress (SAYCO).
Necklacing is a method of extrajudicial summary execution and torture carried out by forcing a rubber tyre drenched with petrol around a victim's chest and arms, and setting it on fire. The term "necklace" originated in the mid-to-late 1980s, in the black townships of apartheid-era South Africa, where suspected apartheid collaborators were publicly executed in this fashion by members of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) and the South African Youth Congress (SAYCO).
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