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"ethnic" Definitions
  1. connected with or belonging to a group of people that share a cultural tradition
  2. typical of a country or culture that is very different from modern Western culture and therefore interesting for people in Western countries This use can be considered offensive.

446 Sentences With "ethnic"

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The term "ethnic conflict" generally refers to conflict between ethnic communities, whereas "ethnic protest" refers to protests by an ethnic community against state policies.
About 60 percent of Malaysia's population is ethnic Malay Muslim, with most of the rest ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indian.
By creating an additional layer of privilege, this time ethnic, indirect rule fragmented the racially conscious majority into so many ethnic minorities, in every part of the country setting ethnic majorities against ethnic minorities.
The coalition contains parties representing the country's three main ethnic groups: majority Malays, most of whom are Muslim, ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indians.
"We should strive for ethnic equality and rooting out ethnic divisions."
Tatarstan has ethnic ties to Crimea's Tatars, a large ethnic minority.
Paramilitaries or ethnic militias known as special police, initially established as counterinsurgency units, are increasingly involved in ethnic conflicts, mainly between neighboring ethnic states.
Kenyans vote overwhelmingly along ethnic lines, and elections stir up ethnic tensions.
Machar was an ethnic Nuer, the second-largest ethnic group in the country.
Newham not only lacks powerful ethnic blocks; its politics is actually anti-ethnic.
Ethnic Chinese make up about 25 percent and ethnic Indians about 7 percent.
Kenyatta is an ethnic Kikuyu -- largest of the country's more than 40 ethnic groups.
FijiFirst is a multi-ethnic party (although it wins nearly all the ethnic-Indian vote).
The country is a mix of ethnic groups, including Arabs, Nubians and other African ethnic minorities.
Eleven were ethnic Serbs, four ethnic Albanians and four were Bosniaks, he told a news conference.
Q. One of your contributors, James Leibold, draws a distinction between ethnic conflict and ethnic protest.
Fighting has often run along ethnic lines, pitting Kiir's dominant Dinka ethnic group against Machar's Nuer.
Multi-Ethnic Talent represents actors from 11 ethnic backgrounds, including about 25 percent who are white.
Separatist sentiment among ethnic Serbs in Bosnia, ethnic Albanians in Macedonia or minorities elsewhere could strengthen.
Some also pointed out that "ethnic" foods -- a controversy in itself, because what is "ethnic" anyway?
Ethnic tensions Over the past decades, the arrival in Xinjiang of waves of Han Chinese has also fueled ethnic tensions, despite the government's best effort to portray an image of ethnic harmony.
The clashes soon erupted into a civil war that divided the country along ethnic lines, with the Dinka ethnic majority supporting Mr. Kiir, and the Nuer ethnic group aligned with Mr. Machar.
The irony is plain: To prevent the recurrence of a war fought at least partly on ethnic lines — Biafra was populated mainly by the Igbo ethnic group — Nigeria's rulers solidified ethnic identities.
Overall, Albanian ethnic minority parties lost out to the social democrats, suggesting an easing of ethnic strains.
Ethnic Chinese are estimated at 23 percent and ethnic Indians comprise about 7 percent, government data shows.
Ethnic bonds are often stronger than national identity in Kenya, which has at least 40 ethnic groups.
Almost every genocide, ethnic cleansing or inter-ethnic conflict in modern history was preceded by violent words.
The New York Times has written about ethnic violence in Myanmar or ethnic violence in Sri Lanka.
Together, those five seats alone have more than 150,000 ethnic Chinese -- 12.5% of the country's ethnic Chinese population.
The conflict began after President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his deputy Riek Machar, an ethnic Nuer.
In 1965 they parted ways, Malaysia with an ethnic Malay majority and Singapore with an ethnic Chinese majority.
Revoking or preventing the issuance of passports to specific ethnic groups is often the beginning of ethnic cleansing.
The fighting has often played out along ethnic lines; Kiir is an ethnic Dinka, Machar is a Nuer.
Outrage is widespread in the cities, with growing numbers of young, liberal ethnic-Malays as well as most of the ethnic-Chinese and ethnic-Indian minorities who make up about a third the population.
Ethnic mobilization comes from multiple groups, including Ethiopians without an ethnic homeland, and those disenfranchised as minorities in the region of their residence, even if their ethnic group has a homeland in another state.
Ethnic Malays have traditionally backed the ruling BN. But it has lost support over the last decade among urban populations and ethnic-Chinese and ethnic-Indian voters who have been attracted to opposition pledges to tackle graft and end race-based policies favoring ethnic Malays in business, education and housing.
Over the past decades, the arrival in Xinjiang of waves of Han Chinese, the country's predominant ethnic group, has also fueled ethnic tensions, despite the government's best effort to paint a picture of ethnic harmony.
The others include Macedonia, where relations between ethnic Albanians and ethnic Slavs remain tense, and between Kosovo and Serbia.
Other larger ethnic groups accused Tigrayans of imposing a federal system based on ethnic identity to "divide and rule".
Iran maintains close ties with the Shi'ite Hazaras, Afghanistan's third largest ethnic group, and strongmen of other ethnic minorities.
Did you consider that political campaigns might use ethnic group targeting to suppress voter participation among certain ethnic groups?
And then other ethnic groups continued shaming white Americans into not doing other kinds of ethnic face since then.
"This risks confrontation that is as much intra-ethnic and not necessarily just inter-ethnic," said the Western envoy.
They contend that Myanmar's military faults ethnic insurgents for instigating violence to justify their brutal offensives against ethnic populations.
In developing countries, this kind of ethnic power transfer is the exact situation where widespread ethnic conflict breaks out.
South Sudan's war began in December 2013, pitting troops loyal to Mr. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, against rebels led by former Vice President Riek Machar, an ethnic Nuer, in fighting that often falls along ethnic lines.
They had told him that an ethnic-minority bride would be more obedient than someone from the ethnic-Han majority.
The country's ethnic Malay majority are Muslim, while the Chinese and Indian ethnic minorities are mainly Buddhist, Christian or Hindu.
A year ago, following deadly militant attacks, security forces responded by launching abhorrent ethnic cleansing of ethnic #Rohingya in Burma.
It can be illuminating — and terrifying — to put white ethnic resentment into the context of ethnic resentment in other nations.
More than one million people of religious or ethnic minority groups have been incarcerated, not one million minority ethnic groups.
This pollution "is disproportionately induced by the racial-ethnic majority and disproportionately inhaled by racial-ethnic minorities," the study said.
The killings resemble the early stages of an ethnic cleansing campaign directed at members of the Hema ethnic community here.
Malaysia's ethnic Chinese are estimated at 23 percent while mostly Hindu ethnic Indians comprise about 7 percent, government data shows.
A member of the Luo ethnic group holds rocks after a standoff with members of the Kalenjin ethnic group in Kisumu.
Political rivalry between Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, and Machar, a Nuer, sparked a civil war that has often followed ethnic lines.
The military has also targeted the Rakhine ethnic group, though some ethnic Rakhine are also implicated in atrocities against the Rohingya.
The public-housing estates where most Singaporeans live are subject to ethnic quotas, so everywhere probably has an ethnic-Chinese majority.
Kenya, home to more than 40 officially recognized ethnic groups, has long had its own problems with prejudice and ethnic tensions.
For example, Facebook categorizes users into an "ethnic affinity" based on what it thinks might be their ethnicity or ethnic influence.
Diplomats say ethnic Chinese holding foreign passports are routinely treated more harshly than non-ethnic Chinese foreign nationals charged with crimes.
In past decades, tensions between largely Muslim ethnic minorities and China's Han ethnic majority in Xinjiang have occasionally erupted in violence.
A taxi driver belonging to China's main ethnic group, the Han, says that there are now hardly any ethnic Koreans driving cabs.
Its population is more than 75% ethnically Chinese, 15% ethnic Malay and 7% ethnic Indian, according to the Singaporean Prime Minister's Office.
The conflict has mostly been fought along ethnic lines, pitting Kiir's dominant Dinka tribe and its rival, the ethnic Nuer of Machar.
It all helps make some poorer Malays more susceptible to populists painting ethnic-Chinese and ethnic-Indian Malaysians as rent-seeking interlopers.
Not thin enough, not pretty enough, not ethnic enough, while also being too thin, too ethnic, too pretty the very next day.
The military's ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic group, is popular, as are social controls against journalists and minorities.
Winning support is also likely to be particularly challenging for Natalie, an ethnic-Chinese Indonesian, in a climate of religious and ethnic tensions.
For Trumpists it is an expression of "ethnic democracy," the nationalist notion that government benefits should be reserved for the dominant ethnic group.
As a result, some 120,000 Serbs remain in ethnic Albanian-dominated Kosovo; some 60,000 ethnic Albanians live in the Presevo valley in Serbia.
Abdullah's support is drawn heavily from among northern Tajiks, Afghanistan's second largest ethnic minority, who have been largely against Ghani, an ethnic Pashtun.
Noah Tucker, a journalist and academic, argues that Kyrgyzstan's ethnic Uzbeks have been marginalised by successive governments since inter-ethnic clashes in 2010.
South Sudan was plunged into a sporadic civil war in 2013 when Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his deputy, an ethnic Nuer.
Ethnic cleansing by ISIS has displaced, killed and enslaved hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Yazidis, members of an ancient ethnic and religious minority.
The separation of Singapore from Malaysia gave ethnic Malays a clear majority in Malaysia, while ethnic Chinese formed the majority in independent Singapore.
Nevertheless, nearly six years later, racial and ethnic disparities persist, with studies showing lower PrEP awareness and use among racial and ethnic minorities.
China did not target any ethnic minority, Mr. Hu said; its ethnic minorities lived in peace and contentment enjoying freedom of religious belief.
Ethnic Rakhine Buddhists, who compose the state's ethnic majority, have also been accused of participating in the bloodletting and burning of Rohingya villages.
Of Kosovo's population of almost two million, roughly 90 percent are ethnic Albanian and some 6 percent are estimated to be ethnic Serb.
The mainly ethnic Tajik Jamiat-i-Islami party behind Abdullah, a veteran of the old mujahideen Northern Alliance, as well other groups like the mainly Shia ethnic Hazaras and the ethnic Uzbek minorities of northern Afghanistan have watched his return with misgiving.
That is the deeper reason why ethnic Latvians are still wary of their ethnic Russian compatriots: fear that their tiny nation will be overwhelmed.
The second, in 1994, came shortly before the introduction of ethnic federalism, by which Ethiopia was divided into regions that ostensibly followed ethnic boundaries.
His 1970 book, "The Malay Dilemma", argued that ethnic Malays, whom he called the nation's rightful owners, were being eclipsed economically by ethnic Chinese.
Much of this violence is caused by tensions between ethnic groups—two-thirds of civil wars have been fought along ethnic lines since 1946.
The United Nations has accused Myanmar of ethnic cleansing and last week Washington said the military's campaign included "horrendous atrocities" aimed at "ethnic cleansing".
Mainly Muslim ethnic Malays form about 60 percent of Malaysia's population of 30 million, while ethnic Chinese and Indians account for about 32 percent.
"A year ago, following deadly militant attacks, security forces responded by launching abhorrent ethnic cleansing of ethnic #Rohingya in Burma," Pompeo tweeted Sunday morning.
The UN and the US say they believe the violence against the Rohingya, which are members of a minority ethnic group, constitutes ethnic cleansing.
Malaysia is a multi-religious, multi-ethnic country, with Muslims (most of them ethnic Malays) accounting for only 60% or so of the population.
A concern is that the film focuses on Singapore's Chinese, the dominant ethnic majority, at the expense of Malays, Indians and other ethnic minorities.
"Chicago is made up of many ethnic islands, and people would be sitting around me and talking in their various ethnic dialects," he said.
Such as in Myanmar where its platform became a conduit for hate speech-fuelled ethnic violence towards the Rohingya people and other ethnic minorities.
Burundi and neighboring Rwanda, which both have an ethnic Hutu majority and Tutsi minority, have been torn apart by ethnic conflict in the past.
Businesses operating in these ethnic strongholds complain that they have to pay levies to ethnic armed groups, as well as taxes to the government.
The alliance may hope that a riled China will put pressure on Myanmar to make concessions to the ethnic groups (the Kokangs are ethnic Chinese).
Listening to him speak, it was hard to guess his origins: South Korean, ethnic Korean from China, ethnic Chinese from North Korea, or North Korean.
In examining the relationship between white identity and ethnic diversity, we chose to focus on an ethnic minority of particular salience in contemporary politics: Hispanics.
Since the ethnic cleansing of the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia, Balkan states have been particularly sensitive to the risks of ethnic and religious conflict.
Ethnic minorities make up an estimated 30 to 40 percent of Myanmar's population, and ethnic states occupy some 57 percent of the total land area.
The Sidama ethnic group is due to vote on Wednesday in a referendum on self-determination, a demand of at least eight other ethnic groups.
During World War II, two Yugoslav partisan soldiers -- Boro Vukmirović (an ethnic-Serb from Montenegro) and Ramiz Sadiku (an ethnic-Albanian) -- developed a close friendship.
The President's comments addressed the issue of ethnic bonds, which are often stronger than national identity in Kenya, which has at least 40 ethnic groups.
It is home to almost all of the country's 7,000 ethnic Dulong, or Drung, one of the smallest of the 213 official national ethnic groups.
Tharman is an ethnic Tamil and few believe that despite its multi-culturalism Singapore is ready for a prime minister who is not ethnic Chinese.
Along with other ethnic Albanian staff she lost her job in the 1990s, when Serbia's former dictator, Slobodan Milosevic, began a program of ethnic cleansing.
At various times, Turkey has splintered along religious, ideological and ethnic lines and seen further divisions within those religious, ideological and ethnic formations as well.
No need, either, to build a new federal army, as the ethnic armed groups insist: The Tatmadaw says it already represents the country's ethnic diversity.
Beijing accuses separatists among the Muslim Uighur ethnic minority there of stirring up tensions with the ethnic Han Chinese majority and plotting attacks elsewhere in China.
Ethnic tensions have been the source of sporadic violence between the Sinhala Buddhists and minorities, including Muslims and ethnic Tamils, since the end of the war.
Kosovo's mainly ethnic Albanian security forces generally stay out of the small, mainly ethnic Serbian pocket of territory in the north, which Kosovo and Serbia dispute.
But ethnic tensions have persisted and violence breaks out occasionally, especially in the divided northern region of Mitrovica, where most of the ethnic Serb minority lives.
Iran is a multi-ethnic country — over 50 percent of the population is comprised of non-Persian ethnic minorities, including Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Turkmen, Arabs and Baluch.
Killings, arson and rape carried out by troops and ethnic Rakhine Buddhist mobs since then amount to ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya, the United Nations says.
Political rivalry between Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, and his former deputy Machar, a Nuer, led to civil war in 2013 that has often followed ethnic lines.
"Today, more than 85033 million Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and other Muslims are interned in reeducation camps designed to erase their religious and ethnic identities," he added.
Oil-rich South Sudan has torn by civil war since 2013, when President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his deputy Riek Machar, an ethnic Nuer.
From Thursday, 29 ethnic Oromos were killed by ethnic Somali attackers in the region's Hawi Gudina and Daro Lebu districts, regional spokesman Addisu Arega Kitessa said.
I then looked at the ethnic breakdown of each state and territory to create a nationwide senators-per-million-people average for each major ethnic group.
In Latvia and Estonia, the ethnic Russian minority was large and had been politically elevated above local ethnic majorities; in Lithuania, the Russian minority was small.
China has cracked down on ethnic minorities like the Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking group of mostly Sunni Muslims, who form the largest ethnic group in Xinjiang.
Rather than working as a glue for unity, the fixation on ethnic sharing of national opportunities and resources made Nigerians more aware of their ethnic differences.
I love New York's ethnic diversity, so I would strongly encourage them to go to an ethnic establishment to have cuisine that they haven't sampled before.
Political tensions in the country are fed by a historical ethnic rift, with Guyanese of African descent supporting the government and ethnic Indians favoring the opposition.
Ethiopia's census lists more than 90 ethnic groups, but there are only nine ethnically defined regional assemblies with rights for the officially designated majority ethnic group.
The city is also not far from areas where ethnic populations are struggling, with no end in sight to fighting between the military and ethnic insurgents.
"Ethnic federalism implies a hierarchy of rights," said Tom Lavers, an academic at Manchester University who has studied the land rights of Ethiopia's ethnic minorities under federalism.
Political rivalry between Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, and his former deputy Riek Machar, a Nuer, led to civil war in 2013 that has often followed ethnic lines.
"We protect the rights of ethnic minorities in accordance with law, all 55 ethnic groups are represented in the National Congress and Chinese Communist Party," he said.
"Cooperation with the status quo allows the parties of all three groups to use this artificial ethnic construct to win ethnic votes in each election," he added.
The Kremlin "counters ethnic nationalism with its own version of state nationalism," Mr Verkhovsky writes—one based on wars and other state achievements, not on ethnic identity.
People like me who were born into the minority ethnic group, the Hazara, are subjected to discrimination and slavery at the hands of the majority ethnic groups.
Political rivalry between Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, and his former deputy Riek Machar, a Nuer, sparked a civil war in 2013 that has often followed ethnic lines.
Ethnic Malays and other indigenous groups account for about 69 percent of the population, with Chinese making up 23 percent, and ethnic Indians and other the remainder.
The conflict that has often followed ethnic lines pitted President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, against his former deputy and longtime political rival Riek Machar, a Nuer.
Mr. Kenyatta remains popular among members of his own ethnic group, the Kikuyu, and he enjoys support from other ethnic groups that belong to his political alliance.
After a spate of ethnic riots between Uighurs and Han Chinese — the dominant ethnic group in the country — in 2009, China started to see Uighurs as terrorists.
Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, is dominated and ruled by the majority ethnic Bamar, who are mostly Buddhists, and has 135 ethnic groups recognized by the government.
"United front work" is the party's traditional term for developing alliances with non-Communist groups, such as religious communities and ethnic minorities, as well as ethnic Chinese.
Fighting erupted in December 2013 between forces loyal to Mr. Kiir and his Dinka ethnic group and another faction loyal to Mr. Machar and the ethnic Nuer.
Many freelance jade miners, like Mr. Thein Maung, are ethnic Rakhine Buddhists from far-western Rakhine State, the site of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
Though the party's ethnic policies are contentious, there has been a revived interest in some parts of China in the languages and traditions of smaller ethnic groups.
And it said one million minority ethnic groups had been incarcerated in China's Xinjiang Province, when we meant one million people of religious or ethnic minority groups.
It has many ethnic groups, but the areas that draw the most attention from the authorities are home to ethnic Uighurs, a group of mostly Sunni Muslims.
Political rivalry between President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, and Riek Machar, his former deputy, led in 2013 to civil war that often has followed ethnic lines.
Tensions have been high since a militia from the Dogon ethnic group was accused of carrying out a larger massacre in an ethnic Fulani village in March.
A fair version of holistic admissions would recognize the ethnic diversity among those categorized as Asian American and also recognize social-class diversity within Asian ethnic groups.
On Thursday an ethnic Nande "Mai Mai" militia in the eastern Congolese village of Kyaghala killed at least 19 mostly ethnic Hutu civilians, a local activist group monitoring the area said on Saturday, the latest bout of ethnic violence that has killed scores of people since late last year.
The U.N. says killings, arson and rape carried out by troops and ethnic Rakhine Buddhist mobs since then amount to a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya.
The Oromo Democratic Front (ODF) was formed in 2013 by former members of the Oromo Liberation Front and seeks self-determination for ethnic Oromos, Ethiopia's largest ethnic group.
All Rwanda's bursts of ethnic slaughter since its independence took place under authoritarian regimes, as did those in next-door Burundi, which has a similar ethnic make-up.
Sri Lanka's civil war, in which rebel groups from the ethnic Tamil minority sought independence from the ethnic Sinhala Buddhist majority, ended in 2009 after nearly three decades.
"This [tendency] falls under something called social identity theory or ethnic psychology (where ethnic just refers to small groups that have a mini culture unto themselves)," Muthukrishna says.
There, Beijing has set up a network of detention centers imprisoning by some estimates up to several million ethnic Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyzs, and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities.
Or say your district includes immigrants or others of ethnic heritage from a particular part of the world – join a caucus focused on a country or ethnic group.
For example, in Rwanda, escalating fear and distrust between ethnic groups culminated in some ethnic Hutus' labeling Tutsis as "cockroaches," helping pave the way for the 1994 genocide.
In addition, some of the protests have an ethnic element, since most of the residents of Iran's border provinces are non-Persians and members of Iran's ethnic minorities.
Sayragul Sauytbay, an ethnic Kazakh woman who fled China's notorious internment camps where many Muslim ethnic minorities are held, gave a haunting recounting of her ordeal to Haaretz.
Their accounts of family histories can serve as a source of ethnic pride and personal empowerment for younger generations searching for their identities as racial and ethnic minorities.
Red Star and Partizan remain major centers of Serbian ethnic nationalism—the same sentiment that led to civil war and ethnic cleansing in the region in the 23s.
They ask why it is that ethnic Europeans, uniquely, face a moral obligation to turn themselves into ethnic minorities and hope it all works out for their descendants.
Ethnic groups have moved around the globe for millenniums so when exactly did this become static and certain ethnic groups became "entitled" to certain bits of the planet?
When rapid social change and deep ethnic divisions coincide, society and politics can fracture, setting ethnic groups on a battle for control, as happened in Rwanda and Bosnia.
Unsavory population transfers would also be likely in the Presevo Valley as ethnic Albanians move to areas destined to become part of Kosovo and ethnic Serbs leave them.
The politicization of ethnic belonging, the forced displacement of ethnic minorities, and the absence of justice and accountability make the process of forgiveness and reconciliation a daunting task.
More than 6,000 people have died on both sides of the conflict between ethnic Malay Muslims and ethnic Thai Buddhists since the killings began to escalate in 2004.
It is a paranoid move in response to a spate of ethnic riots between Uighurs and Han Chinese, the dominant ethnic group in the country, ten years ago.
Xinjiang has long been an inseparable part of Chinese territory, and the Uighur ethnic group evolved from a long process of migration and ethnic integration, the paper said.
Yet in practice ethnic groups, particularly those from China's borderlands, who are visually distinctive, are discriminated against and increasingly marginalised as ethnic Han have moved into their home regions.
Many top military chiefs are Dinka, the same ethnic group as President Salva Kiir Mayardit, and many rebels are Nuer, the ethnic group of former vice president Riek Machar.
The Taliban holds sway in most of the province where ethnic Pashtuns live, while the government&aposs influence is limited to Ghazni and small pockets dominated by ethnic Hazaras.
Political rivalry in South Sudan between Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, and his former deputy Machar, a Nuer, led to civil war in 2013 that has often followed ethnic lines.
The three-year conflict has fractured South Sudan along ethnic lines - Kiir is an ethnic Dinka, Machar is a Nuer - and displaced a quarter of the 12 million population.
While the Taliban, made up mainly of ethnic Pashtun Sunni Muslims, has not explicitly targeted Hazaras in the past, officials fear the violence could escalate into an ethnic battle.
Mahathir's ruling coalition has struggled to woo ethnic Malays after its spectacular election win in May on the back of overwhelming support from minority ethnic Chinese and Indian voters.
The United Nations says killings, arson and rape carried out by troops and ethnic Rakhine Buddhist mobs since then amount to a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya.
More than 620,000 Rohingya, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority in Myanmar, have flooded into Bangladesh, escaping what the United States on Wednesday termed "ethnic cleansing" by Myanmar's security forces.
Today, almost all instruction is in English except for a class in the student's native tongue: Tamil and Malay for ethnic Indians and Malays, and Mandarin for ethnic Chinese.
The ethnic Uzbek's reporting on corruption, abuse and human rights elicited trumped-up charges that included incitement to ethnic hatred and complicity in the murder of a police officer.
Escaping what the United Nations has called "ethnic cleansing" in Myanmar's northwest state of Rakhine, thousands of Rohingya — a Muslim-majority ethnic group — have sought shelter in neighboring countries.
The move is controversial and has encountered opposition from many in Abiy's own ethnic group, the Oromo, who fear it will undermine the ethnic autonomy enshrined in the constitution.
The system of ethnic federalism was troubled with internal inconsistencies because ethnic groups do not live only in a discrete "homeland" territory but are also dispersed across the country.
This month, the government announced that a group representing the ethnic Mon and a little known entity from the ethnic Lahu would be joining a national cease-fire agreement.
Myanmar's security forces have also orchestrated a campaign of what the United Nations calls ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims, a mostly stateless ethnic group, in far western Rakhine State.
One such group is the Uighur (pronounced WEE-gur), a Turkic-speaking ethnic group native to China's vast far western Xinjiang region (officially called the Xinjiang autonomous ethnic region).
Certain topics — politics, ethnic identity — are rarely discussed.
"Our county has been designated as the model county to exemplify ethnic harmony, and all ethnic groups have coexisted peacefully for the last few decades," the source told BuzzFeed News.
In the election, many ethnic Albanian voters shifted to the Social Democrats for the first time since a 2001 inter-ethnic conflict brought Macedonia to the brink of civil war.
Put bluntly, Keshap's comments are ridiculous and a slap in the face to the country's Tamil community (an ethnic minority in a country that is largely comprised of ethnic Sinhalese).
"All small ethnic groups have to face the kind of tragic choice of embracing modernization or preserving traditions," said Ba Zhanlong, an ethnic Yugur anthropology professor at Beijing Normal University.
The ethnic balance has since shifted, with Kazakhs now making up 69 percent of the oil-rich nation's population of 18 million, while ethnic Russians account for just a fifth.
Soon Ethiopia's second largest ethnic group, the Amhara, joined in, and the protests have now hardened into calls to overthrow the government, which is led by a small ethnic minority.
Such colorfully dressed delegates, members of China's dozens of officially recognized ethnic minorities, are a regular feature of the National People's Congress, symbols of the state policy of ethnic integration.
When Facebook becomes 'the beast': Myanmar activists say social media aids genocide Ethnic cleansing The UN and the US say they believe the violence against the Rohingya constitutes ethnic cleansing.
It is about restoring Mosul to the multi-ethnic city it once was, which is a microcosm in recreating Iraq as a diverse but unified, multi-ethnic, multi-sectarian state.
Suu Kyi is Bamar, but many ethnic leaders hope she will use her authority to end decades of war between government troops and ethnic armed groups fighting for greater autonomy.
Drawing on social psychology, he theorized that one of the underappreciated causes of ethnic violence was a change in the legal and political status of majority and minority ethnic groups.
Drawing on social psychology, Petersen argued that one of the underappreciated causes of ethnic violence was a change in the legal and political status of majority and minority ethnic groups.
Many of the journalists have been imprisoned after reporting on abuses taking place in Myanmar's ethnic frontier lands, where the military has been fighting various ethnic guerrilla groups for decades.
The United Nations says killings, arson and rape carried out by troops and ethnic Rakhine Buddhist mobs since late August amount to a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya.
The ethnic Rakhine rebels accused the lawmaker, Hawi Tin, who is a member of the mostly Christian Chin ethnic group, of passing on information about their activities to the authorities.
Ethnic militia leaders seek refuge in China, and Beijing once chartered a plane from China to deliver ethnic representatives to a national peace conference in Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar.
The students, most of whom are women who belong to the Amhara ethnic group, were studying at Dembi Dolo University in Oromia, a region populated by ethnic Oromos, officials said.
While most researchers in that field focus on ethnic minorities, Professor Kaufmann does the opposite: He studies the behavior of ethnic majorities, particularly whites in the United States and Britain.
The jihadist violence in the Sahel has also fueled ethnic conflict, particularly between rival hunting and farming communities, with ethnic self-defense militias targeting civilians in reprisal for militant attacks.
Studies of previous presidential elections reveal that electorates almost exclusively have voted on ethno-linguistic lines, thereby worsening ethnic divides, which in turn worsen inter-ethnic relations in the country.
South Sudan won independence from Sudan in 2011 but plunged into civil war just two years later after Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his vice president, Machar, an ethnic Nuer.
And it would be a chance to rebuild relationships between the N.L.D. and leaders of ethnic political parties and ethnic armed resistance organizations, a necessity for both peace and democratization.
International human rights groups have for decades accused the military of gang-raping ethnic-minority women and forcing ethnic-minority civilians to act as human minesweepers, among other war crimes.
"A year ago, following deadly militant attacks, security forces responded by launching abhorrent ethnic cleansing of ethnic #Rohingya in Burma," Pompeo said on Twitter, using an alternative name for Myanmar.
While the conflict is political in origin, ethnic divisions along Hutu-Tutsi lines have been manipulated from above, analysts worry, stoking fear that the country will descend into ethnic violence.
But the greater freedoms have lifted the lid on long-repressed tensions between Ethiopia's many ethnic groups and Abiy has accused unnamed media figures of promoting ethnic interests over national unity.
He founded his company about three years ago in a effort to challenge the "ethnic aisle," otherwise known as the area at retailers where products geared toward ethnic minorities are marketed.
Since Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater squared off in 1964, the Democrats have been the party of ethnic pluralism in America, one that sees the nation as a multi-ethnic democracy.
Ethnic cleansing is not recognized as a separate crime under international law but allegations of ethnic cleansing as part of wider, systematic human rights violations have been heard in international courts.
Testimonies pointed to "a persecution on ethnic grounds which is similar to what has been, in other contexts, described as 'ethnic cleansing'," U.N. mission leader Linnea Arvidsson told a news briefing.
This past week, my colleagues at The Times reported on the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, an ethnic minority in Myanmar that has been subjected to brutal violence and mass displacement.
Researchers mapped internet access and compared that to a list of ethnic settlement regions to show that less powerful ethnic groups have worse access, in a study published today in Science.
And with China's backing, the most recalcitrant of the ethnic fighters, the United Wa State Army, the largest ethnic army in Myanmar, has also said it will join the peace gathering.
Mahinda Rajapaksa, now an opposition legislator, is still popular among many ethnic majority Sinhala Buddhists who credit him with ending a 26-year-war against ethnic Tamil separatist rebels in 2009.
Paulsen cited fresh reports from U.N. staff of inter-ethnic fighting in the Kasais, including the Penda and Chokwe ethnic groups against the Luba and clashes between the Lunda and Luba.
South Sudan won independence from Sudan in 2011 but plunged into civil war in 2013 after Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his deputy, Machar, a member of the Nuer ethnic group.
Most recently it has been accused of abuses during what it calls "clearance operations" against ethnic Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, which the United Nations has said amounts to ethnic cleansing.
This past week, my colleagues at The Times reported on the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, an ethnic minority in Myanmar that has been subjected to brutal violence and mass displacement.
Parts of Xinjiang are home to ethnic Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking people who mostly practice Sunni Islam and often resent policies made by the ethnic Han, the dominant group in China.
The most notable burst of violence occurred in 2009, when ethnic rioting convulsed Urumqi, the regional capital, resulting in about 200 deaths, most of them ethnic Han, according to official reports.
Nor, he says, were the attacks simply on ethnic Chinese — indeed, most victims and perpetrators were of the same ethnic and religious group, whether Javanese Muslims, Balinese Hindus or Protestant Bataks.
More than 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda when an ethnic Hutu-led government and ethnic militias went on a 100-day massacre in April 1994, murdering Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
BANGKOK — Myanmar recognizes 135 ethnic groups within its borders.
Causes of Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide: For students studying the Holocaust, or other past examples of genocide or ethnic cleansing, Amanda Taub's essay in The Interpreter, "Myanmar Follows Global Pattern in How Ethnic Cleansing Begins," addresses the inherent dangers of unbridled nationalism to minority rights, whether in Nazi Germany, the former Yugoslavia or Myanmar.
It threatens the country's fragile system of "ethnic federalism", a constitutional model which offers a degree of self-determination to Ethiopia's diverse communities but which critics say encourages competition along ethnic lines.
More than 50 people have died since the ethnic Madhesis, backed by some other smaller ethnic groups, launched protests in the landlocked, Himalayan country's southern plains against the amendment to the constitution.
But the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) has held power for six decades and enjoys broad support from Malaysia's ethnic-Malay majority, some of whom resent their ethnic-Chinese and Indian compatriots.
The report suggested companies take steps such as reporting their ethnic diversity policies, publishing data on their boardroom diversity, and developing a pool of "high potential ethnic minority leaders" through mentorship programs.
This act of ethnic cleansing was fuelled in part by a belief among Oromos that Gedeos had become the largest ethnic group in the area and planned to annex it from Oromia.
The fighting has raised fears of a return to the civil war that erupted in late 2013 and broadly ran along ethnic lines, pitting Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, against Machar, a Nuer.
For years, the Myanmar security forces have been allowed to get away with ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, with devastating results for the people of Myanmar, in particular its ethnic minorities.
To understand just what kind of a place Ethiopia had been before his appointment, its recent history shows a nation riven by ethnic tensions among more than a dozen different ethnic groups.
The Kurds are an ethnic group of perhaps 35 million in Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey, and they have long argued that they are the world's largest ethnic group without a state.
Malaysia's ethnic Chinese have long been a scapegoat for the Malay community, with UMNO leaders pointing to ethnic Chinese economic dominance to unite Malays and keep a firm grip on political power.
His is one of several ethnic Serb parties in Kosovo, but unlike its major rivals, it is less subservient to Belgrade, and willing to recognize and work with the ethnic Albanian authorities.
From 1983 to 2009, separatists from the Tamil ethnic group, which is mostly Hindu, fought a civil war against the government, dominated by the Sinhalese ethnic majority, most of whom are Buddhist.
Tens of thousands have been killed in South Sudan's war, which began in December 2013 with fighting been soldiers loyal to President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, and Machar, an ethnic Nuer.
Opponents of Bersih, which draws the bulk of its support from Malaysia's ethnic Chinese minority, said at the time that the protest aimed to challenge the political power of ethnic majority Malays.
Ethiopians used to think of themselves as Africans of a special kind, who were not colonized, but the country today resembles a quintessential African system, marked by ethnic mobilization for ethnic gains.
Since 2017, the western state of Rakhine has turned into a global byword for ethnic cleansing, as members of the Buddhist majority unleashed a widespread rampage against the Muslim Rohingya ethnic group.
Yet, despite the ethnic allegiances and patronage systems that handcuff Kenyan democracy, the country has avoided a repeat of the ethnic-fueled violence after the 2007 election that killed more than 1,000 people.
Mr Najib's people insist that the issue is no business of the (non-Muslim) ethnic Chinese, who make up a quarter of the population, or with ethnic Indians, who make up a tenth.
That will relieve Western governments, which in 2001 only just stemmed Macedonia's slide into a civil war between its ethnic majority, whose language is close to Bulgarian, and a large ethnic-Albanian minority.
In his book, Understanding Ethnic Violence, Petersen argues that his theory helps explain the causes of other cases of ethnic violence in Eastern Europe, including the carnage in the Balkans in the 22012s.
But the bitterly fought campaign to unseat the ethnic Chinese, Christian governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, a close ally of Widodo, exposed deep religious and ethnic divisions in the world's biggest Muslim-majority country.
Kagame won international credit for restoring stability in Rwanda and presiding over a rapid economic recovery after the genocide, in which an estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate ethnic Hutus were killed.
But locals tend to compare their fortunes with those of ethnic kin across the border in Malaysia, where laws grant the Malay majority a host of advantages over ethnic-Chinese and Indian minorities.
The people of CAR expect its government to function, and if it cannot or will not take responsibility for the religious, ethnic, and sectarian violence it faces, we will see more ethnic cleansing.
We formed an organization — the Association of Displaced, Vulnerable Communities and Ethnic Groups — and worked with other groups to insert language into the peace accord about the needs and experiences of ethnic communities.
Bouts of ethnic violence took place over the course of Bekri's tenure between the Uighurs in Xinjiang and the Han Chinese national ethnic majority that led to the deaths of hundreds of people.
Political arguments often have ethnic undercurrents, with Odinga's supporters pointing out that three of the country's four presidents have come from one ethnic group, the Kikuyu, although the country has 44 recognized groups.
"The identification of disease with national origin, ethnic group, or religion took on a more sinister character as one of a number of rationalizations for displacement, ethnic cleansing, and even genocide," he wrote.
But two years later, a civil war broke out when President Salva Kiir, who belongs to the majority Dinka ethnic group, fired his deputy, Riek Machar, who belongs to the Nuer ethnic group.
Almost 700,000 of the Muslim ethnic minority have crossed the Bangladesh border in the last six months, fleeing what the UN has described as a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing" by Myanmar troops.
"The situation must be acceptable for both local Rakhine ethnic people and Bengalis, and emphasis must be placed on (the) wish of local Rakhine ethnic people who are real Myanmar citizens," he said.
His campaign is promoting ethnic nationalism in a way that hasn't been seen in decades, and that mobilization of majoritarian ethnic identity is bad for the Jews, whether Trump likes it or not.
Heart disease is the leading killer of adults nationwide, and South Asians, the second fastest-growing ethnic group in America, have a higher death rate from the disease than any other ethnic group.
Compared to the country's 20 million Muslims, most of whom are ethnic minorities, Protestant Christianity is practiced by 60 million ethnic Chinese, who are often white-collar professionals living in the country's heartland.
It is riven by theological, ideological, ethnic and personal rivalries.
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But she has to balance ethnic politics with labor politics.
We actually have the lowest revenue of any ethnic group.
Ethnic Armenian troops, firmly back in control, milled around, smiling.
The figures give no ethnic breakdown of the alleged perpetrators.
Ethnic divisions are more mutable and bridgeable than racial ones.
The new study showed differences among age and ethnic groups.
An Idris Elba or *insert ethnic name* couldn't do this.
Most victims were Tamils, an ethnic and religious Hindu minority.
Dividing lines are also apparent in Kenya between ethnic groups.
The United Nations has described the campaign as ethnic cleansing.
White is also worn by ethnic Chinese people at funerals.
" She added, "'Ethnic cleansing' is a very heavy, loaded term.
Peace would also put the ethnic militias out of business.
Elizabeth Warren was "lying" about her ethnic heritage, that Sen.
Racial, ethnic, sexual and religious slurs exact a social cost.
The study found geographical differences as well as ethnic disparities.
But the ethnic purity of Britain's royals is a myth.
Are activists from ethnic minorities engaged in armed struggle silenced?
China is hacking its ethnic minority groups far and wide.
But they officially do not exist as an ethnic minority.
And, arguably, it may turn out to be ethnic cleansing.
Ethnic genocide has, at times, been a tactic in Afghanistan.
A greater threat to Ethiopia's stability comes from ethnic tension.
Elections in other African countries have often sparked ethnic violence.
All told, 14 recognised ethnic groups live in Afghanistan today.
The country's violence is also linked to these ethnic tensions.
No American ethnic group is as reliably and deeply partisan.
The authorities said Mr Bilash had been "inciting ethnic hatred".
Violent conflict between the ethnic groups escalated in the '90s.
Ethnic divisions that erupted in fighting back then have endured.
A dozen smaller parties represent particular ethnic or religious groups.
Particularly worrying is the gradual ethnic polarisation of the army.
Militias are proliferating; a cycle of ethnic violence has begun.
Kurds are an ethnic minority distinct from Iraq's Arab majority.
In the past, minority ethnic groups tended to cluster together.
Take, for example, the controversy centering on her ethnic heritage.
Huugjilt, like many ethnic Mongols, went by a single name.
Elections can lose legitimacy, or ethnic violence can break out.
You see a lot of ethnic purity in that space.
Disparities are even more striking along racial and ethnic lines.
Of the 83 convicted, more than 60 were ethnic Serbs.
Ethnic cleansing only stopped in Kosovo when NATO moved in.
The people interviewed belong to a variety of ethnic groups.
The men, like most of the villagers, were ethnic Chinese.
But that anger isn't directed at any individual ethnic group.
Sitcoms where ethnic characters appear infrequently and always as punchlines.
Ethnic and racial diversity is a good goal to pursue.
Lastly, PornHub looked at the data for ethnic search terms.
The three major ethnic groups also predominantly have different faiths.
We don't have a lot of ethnic groups here either.
They happened because those in power deliberately inflamed ethnic divisions.
Nearly half died as a result of this ethnic cleansing.
You want "ethnic" fast food that would scare him shitless?
We also are aiming to increase ethnic and gender diversity.
Putin claimed ethnic Kazakhs had never known statehood before the
So let's aim for ideological as well as ethnic diversity.
Kanyonyo belongs to the Kikuyu, Kenya's most populous ethnic group.
They are tasked with uncovering religious and ethnic nationalist attitudes.
Nigerians should never be divided by ethnic or religious lines.
Some claim to be Bamar, the country's main ethnic group.
" However, he declined to label the crisis as "ethnic cleansing.
"We shouldn't make this about ethnic politics," Ms. Alcantara said.
Also, its ethnic stereotyping and its rape jokes give pause.
But fighting between the military and other ethnic groups continues.
The State Department has accused Myanmar of committing ethnic cleansing.
Ours is not a nation defined by an ethnic identity.
It's a traditional Peranakan (a local Singaporean ethnic group) dish.
Jews must maintain an ethnic majority in the Jewish state.
Ethnic studies programs started cropping up in colleges and universities.
"White people were "repelled from, communities with large ethnic minorities.
The UN and US has described it as ethnic cleansing.
It was racial or ethnic or religious or political persecution.
Such silence simply legitimizes the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya.
Kenya has a history of ethnic clashes and political violence.
Syria is effectively partitioned along sectarian and ethnic fault lines.
Disparities cannot be generalized from one ethnic population to another.
Instead, there is a kind of suffocating, insular, ethnic uniformity.
It also reveals the uneasy history among Crimean ethnic groups.
Neither does the poverty or ethnic diversity of the combatants.
But it wasn't just the country's ethnic composition that changed.
The Han [the dominant ethnic group in China] are farmers.
The ethnic enclaves in the city are a spectacular development.
The downswingers embrace ethnic and national cohesion and closed borders.
In 2009, a spasm of deadly ethnic conflict rocked Urumqi.
Stupendous corruption, ethnic wars and falling copper prices all hurt.
The area is rife with ethnic tensions and drug smuggling.
There are nearly 200 national and ethnic minorities in Russia.
ACEs cross every line — racial, ethnic, geographic, gender, socio-economic.
Ethnic minority issues are among the most sensitive in China.
National elections in October saw angry appeals for ethnic loyalty.
At the moment, the Tatmadaw is battling four ethnic groups.
China's oppression of religious and ethnic minorities is well known.
Mr. Khan takes great pride in his Pashtun ethnic identity.
Resemblances are crucial to kinship, whether familial, tribal or ethnic.
But she still encountered casual ethnic stereotyping that surprised her.
The ethnic Russian population is only an estimated 6 million.
Years of broken promises to ethnic groups have not helped.
Seoul is more welcoming to ethnic Korean migrants from China.
It has sowed ambivalence and division among Asian ethnic groups.
This swap is effectively a peaceful form of ethnic cleansing.
The lack of ethnic representation in children's literature is stark.
Ethnic Serbs account for around a third of Montenegro's population.
But, amid collapse, communities naturally coalesced around local ethnic groups.
The judge's ethnic background was not mentioned during Friday's proceedings.
Then her husband and brother were killed in ethnic violence.
The E.P.R.D.F. coalition itself is still divided along ethnic lines.
What is more, the increases ranged across all ethnic groupings.
In March Kazakhstan arrested Serikzhan Bilash for "inciting ethnic hatred".
A walk up from the docks traces this ethnic geography.
Machar is an ethnic Nuer while Kiir is a Dinka.
The U.N. has warned the ethnic violence spill into genocide.
Ethnic Serbs account for around a third of Montenegro's population.
Unchecked monitoring can also disproportionately affect religious and ethnic minorities.
And it's by artists of diverse geographic and ethnic backgrounds.
One referred, with an obscenity, to Mr. Condodemetraky's ethnic background.
A white ethnic majority that is losing its demographic dominance.
Ethnic Albanians make up an overwhelming majority of Kosovo's population.
We were exposed to vastly different ethnic customs and languages.
The government said most of the victims were ethnic Han.
This may have helped to defuse tensions between ethnic groups.
Each side whipped up ethnic animosity against the other's communities.
However, many voters are expected to vote along ethnic lines.
Ethnic cleansing forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes.
For some ethnic and religious minorities, it is even menacing.
Most disfavored racial or ethnic groups are stereotyped as inferior.
Without a dictatorship to suppress it, ethnic violence has flared.
Bigots have incited ethnic cleansing on newly free social media.
They feel marginalized by Nairobi's ethnic Kikuyu and Kalenjin elite.
Some ethnic minority parties have already pledged support to Premadasa.
Women, homosexuals, and ethnic and religious minorities suffered routine persecution.
He also has the backing of some ethnic militia leaders.
At the same time, clashes between ethnic groups have spiked.
He gave citizenship to ethnic Hungarians living beyond the borders.
Certain ethnic groups may be especially sensitive to the drugs.
Many people here, including ethnic Kazakhs, still often speak Russian.
That support is lopsided among different racial and ethnic groups.
It's easy then to work racial, ethnic, gender, age division.
The Sinhalese ethnic group, who are mainly Buddhist, make up the majority of Sri Lanka's population, while the Tamil ethnic group, who are mostly Hindu but also include Christians and Muslims, are a minority.
The 2017 Labour Party rulebook, a 91-page document, contains 26 mentions of gender, 41 of BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic), 43 of ethnic and 11 of race, but only two of class.
South Sudan secured its independence in 2011, but by December 2013 the longtime political rivalry between Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, and Machar, a Nuer, had led to civil conflict that often followed ethnic lines.
Sri Lanka's main ethnic populations are the Sinhalese, the majority of whom are Buddhist; Tamils, who are mainly Hindu with a significant Christian minority; and Muslims, who self-identify as a separate ethnic group.
Malaysia is home to 32 million people, where ethnic Malay Muslims make up more than 60 percent of the population and the remaining ethnic minorities practice other religions such as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism.
Soldiers loyal to President Kiir — who belongs to the Dinka ethnic group, South Sudan's largest — battled troops led by Riek Machar of the Nuer ethnic group, which is believed to be the second largest.
Ankara also worries that Baghdad's Shi'ite Muslim-led forces will destabilize Mosul's largely Sunni population and worsen ethnic strife across the region, where there are also populations of Turkmens, ethnic kin of the Turks.
In half of all prekindergarten classrooms, over 70 percent of students belonged to a single racial or ethnic group, despite the fact that the overall program was diverse, with no racial or ethnic majority.
And the stakes of what appears on the site are exceptionally high because misinformation, as well as explicitly hostile language, is widening longstanding ethnic divides and stoking the violence against the Rohingya ethnic group.
To find a way for Nigeria's more than 250 ethnic groups to live together peacefully, the country was split into 36 states, most of which coincided with the location of a major ethnic group.
There, she helped create the Ethnic and Third World Concentration, a course of study in which students read the literature of recently decolonized nations alongside the writings of ethnic minorities in the United States.
The second is the divide between the country's central plains, largely inhabited by ethnic Burman, who comprise a majority of Myanmar's population; and the surrounding mountainous borderlands, mostly inhabited by ethnic and religious minorities.
It also helped many people living with HIV access insurance who previously could not get it and sharply reduced racial/ethnic disparities in health insurance coverage, a key driver of racial/ethnic health disparities.
Transylvania, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the end of the First World War, has a large ethnic Hungarian population and there have been tensions sometimes between ethnic Hungarians and Romanians.
The victims, overwhelmingly ethnic Hemas and more than 257 of them severely wounded, told VICE News of raids by ethnic Lendu men armed with machetes, bows and arrows, axes, and, in fewer cases, firearms.
In Sri Lanka, for instance, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa won two terms as president by relying on the support of the Sinhalese ethnic majority in a country deeply divided along ethnic and religious lines.
"The situation must be acceptable for both local Rakhine ethnic people and Bengalis, and emphasis must be placed on wish of local Rakhine ethnic people who are real Myanmar citizens," Min Aung Hlaing said.
Kiir's sacking of Machar as his deputy in 2013 triggered fighting between their supporters that spread across the impoverished, oil-producing country, often along ethnic lines between Kiir's dominant Dinka ethnic group and Machar's Nuer.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - In choosing a 42-year-old polyglot from Ethiopia's largest ethnic group as prime minister, the ruling coalition is trying to ease ethnic tensions and appeal to the legions of disaffected youth.
"Just as one loves one's own eyes, one must love ethnic unity; just as one takes one's own livelihood seriously, one must take ethnic unity seriously," Xi told the delegation, according to the state broadcaster.
China promotes the use of standardized Mandarin, based on the dialect of Beijing, and encourages ethnic minorities to learn the official language in a bid to improve unity in multi-ethnic areas of the country.
In a policy that came to be known as ethnic cleansing, hundreds of thousands of Muslims and ethnic Croats, largely Roman Catholic, were driven from their villages, their homes looted and mosques and churches demolished.
Serbia and Croatia Before ethnic conflict flared in the 1990s between Serbs and Bosniacs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and before ethnic Croats turned on Bosniacs, the country's independence had been recognized with its international borders.
Last year, Myanmar's military began a broad campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya — a minority ethnic group in Myanmar's Rakhine State — burning villages, killing thousands and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee to Bangladesh.
Dr. Stroschein chronicled one community in Ukraine where ethnic Hungarians field Hungarian political parties, attend Hungarian religious services, even operate on Hungarian time zones (the clocks of their ethnic Ukrainian neighbors run one hour ahead).
KABUL, Afghanistan — Gunmen in northern Afghanistan ambushed ethnic Hazara coal miners on Friday, shooting at least nine of them dead and seemingly adding to a string of recent attacks singling out ethnic or sectarian minorities.
Others say that his comments are being exploited in an effort to incite ethnic and religious hatred against Mr. Basuki, who is ethnic Chinese and the first Christian in nearly 50 years to govern Jakarta.
And despite historical ethnic and regional divisions in Sudan, the drivers and the leaders of the protests are millennials, who seem to have decided to rise above the regional and ethnic dichotomies of their society.
When civil war erupted there in 2013 after President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused his former deputy, Riek Machar, an ethnic Neur, of fomenting a coup, the United States initially sided with Mr. Kiir.
But, of course, those underlying ethnic tensions never actually went away.
" The second, a "subversive portrayal" – a role based on " 'ethnic' terrain.
Granted, the convergence of ethnic background and style is rocky terrain.
On May 21, Samos's hotspot broke into a vicious ethnic riot.
Equatoria is a region where mostly several smaller ethnic groups live.
The United Nations condemned the Myanmar military campaign as ethnic cleansing.
Outsiders often assume that the fighting springs from ancient ethnic hatred.
Your behavior is unprofessional, immature and frankly smacks of ethnic bias.
Germany is home to three million people of Turkish ethnic background.
The status of children is trumping any kind of ethnic biases.
But for the ethnic Russians in China, life wasn't always peaceful.
The unrest has also deepened tensions between Ethiopia's main ethnic groups.
Policy of sinicization Sauytbay is an ethnic Kazakh, raised in Xinjiang.
Elsewhere, the touchstone might be sectarianism, ethnic chauvinism, or tribal rivalries.

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