Editing Necklacing (section)

=== Ivory Coast and Nigeria ===
In the early 1990s, university students in [[Abidjan]], Ivory Coast, were plagued by burglars stealing from their dormitories. The students took matters into their own hands by capturing the alleged thieves, and then executed them by placing tyres around their necks and setting the tyres on fire. Ivorian police, powerless to stop these necklacings, could do nothing but stand by and watch.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kaplan|first=Robert D.|author-link=Robert D. Kaplan|title=The Ends of the Earth: A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy|url=https://archive.org/details/endsofearthjourn00kapl|url-access=registration|publisher=[[Random House]]|location=New York|year=1996|page=[https://archive.org/details/endsofearthjourn00kapl/page/14 14]|isbn=0-679-75123-8}}</ref>

In 2006, at least one person died in Nigeria by necklacing in the deadly [[International reactions to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy|Muslim protests]] over satirical cartoon drawings of [[Muhammad]].<ref name="in-nigeria">{{cite news |title=Muslims' rage over cartoons hits Nigeria |work=[[The San Diego Union-Tribune]] |agency=[[Associated Press]]|last=Musa |first=Njadvara |url= http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060219/news_1n19cartoon.html |access-date=18 September 2009 |date=19 February 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070228112359/http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060219/news_1n19cartoon.html|archive-date=2007-02-28|url-status=dead}}</ref>