Ethnic Cleansing in the Caribbean

The result has been disastrous, as ethnic rivalries sharpened.

Now, of course there is a certain degree of ethnic allegiance, but not entirely.

Ethnic Armenian, Tsopi, Georgia Onnik Krikorian

I am three quarters ethnic Russian, one quarter ethnic Armenian who received a Soviet passport at the age of 16 and a Ukrainian one at the age 19.

The Wayúu are the largest indigenous group of Venezuela and Colombia.

An ethnic civil war has been raging for several decades in Myanmar.

Once again, the breeding ground for aggression is ethnic hatred.

What is worrisome, however, is the putative ethnic purity of the database.

The ethnic cleansing of many Baghdad neighborhoods in 2006 and 2007 was deplorable.

The warfare of the past centuries, in particular the bloody ethnic cleansings of the past decade, is not valid anymore.

The Rohingya are an ethnic group who are concentrated in Rakhine state, in Buddhist majority Myanmar.

There is a lack of appreciation of how deeply entrenched are Iraq's sectarian, tribal, and ethnic loyalties.

The distinctive feature of this ethnic group is the high rate of albinos among its members.

A total of 91 political and ethnic parties participated in the election.

By the time this ethnic cleansing was over, Pakistan s population was 95 Muslim.

Ethnic division combined with high levels of unemployment is a recipe for volatility.

Geopolitical interests, religious sectarianism, and ethnicity thus form a dangerous mélange in the new Middle East.

It's also love from human beings to human beings regardless of skin color, ethnicity or religion.

Just like other forms of identity, ethnic identity is dynamic, it redefines and reinvents itself over time in order to stay alive.

But no ethnic group monopolizes such pathologies, and all people should be equal before the law.

I really don't understand why people tend to differentiate themselves using the stupid criterion of ethnicity, he writes.

At 34 , the Oromos are the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia, but they have only a nominal federal representation in their country.

Of course, no conflict can be resolved in a one sided manner, benefiting either the state or an ethnic group but not the other.

What sense would it make to bring back millions of Palestinians into a state whose character and symbols are foreign to them a state where the majority belongs to another ethnic group?

Bengalis, who are overwhelmingly the largest (98 ) ethnic group in Bangladesh, customarily celebrate the New Year (Pohela Baishakh) with colourful procession and festivities.

On the other hand, India has claimed that ethnic Madhesi groups, who have protesting against Nepal's new constitution, are responsible for obstructing the border.

Just as states would no longer be able to stress their sovereignty as a trump card over minority claims, ethnic groups could no longer insist that their right to self determination justified any action.

No state may exercise its sovereignty without restriction not every ethnic group has a right to its own national state.

Its largest ethnic group, the Avar, make up only 30 of the population the rest is split between a dozen small nationalities.

In northern Iraq, old scores are being settled and de facto ethnic segregation is being introduced in areas, such as Irbil, that were traditionally diverse.

These ancestral homelands exercised a hold on Turkish imaginations, but today it is business opportunities, energy resources, and other practical matters rather than ethnic unity that are creating a loose Turkic commonwealth.

The most serious problem today is that the country s ethnic tensions and recriminations threaten to undermine the cohesion of the fledgling, multiethnic Afghan Army.

What the hell is happening with our little country, where no minority group, Russian, Gagauz, Jewish, Ukrainian, Armenian, speaks our language?

Bengalis are an Indo Aryan ethnic group from the former Bengal region in South Asia, which is presently divided between Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.

A key ingredient of this simmering conflict is ethnicity, the salience of which became evident even before the election of President Evo Morales in 2005. The combination of highly mobilized and vocal indigenous groups (the Amerindians, mainly located in the western highlands of Bolivia, represent some 55 of the population) and the declining influence of traditional elites at a time of socio economic deterioration, has created a society in which there are more losers than winners.

A key ingredient of this simmering conflict is ethnicity, the salience of which became evident even before the election of President Evo Morales in 2005.

These ancestral homelands exercised a hold on Turkish imaginations, but today it is business opportunities, energy resources, and other practical matters rather than ethnic unity that are creating a loose Turkic commonwealth.

Ethnicity or language hardly seem to be a factor in the secessions (one recognized, the other not) of Eritrea from Ethiopia and the Republic of Somaliland'' from Somalia.

Expressing serious concern at the persistence in many parts of the world of doctrines of superiority and violent nationalist ideologies which are based on racial discrimination or ethnic exclusiveness and xenophobia,

It is increasingly identified with the Republican agenda and Israel s evangelical Christian supporters, even though polls have repeatedly shown that Jews are America s most liberal ethnic group.

In the uprising that took place in Tehran against the regime in 2009, for instance, the ethnic opposition did not participate, as they viewed the movement as a mere derivative of the regime itself.

But ethnicity as the main marker of nationality is a vague and dangerous concept, not least because it leaves all minorities out in the cold.

Both Ghani, who identifies as an ethnic Pashtun, and his erstwhile rivals for the presidency, took steps to build ethnically diverse coalitions in the run up to the vote earlier this year.

On August 5, 2014 she posted another text on VKontakte calling to fight Putin with his own weapons and mentioning the Russian Kuban region as a historically ethnic Ukrainian territory.