Corruption and Ethnic Politics Intersect

During his visit to the country, O'Brien told the press that he witnessed 2,000 Muslims holed up in a Catholic church in the town of Bangassou.

Why should nationality be defined by language or ethnicity?

Kurds held fast to their own ethnic identity.

In Bangladesh, 98 citizens belong to the Bengali ethnic group.

Izhanov thinks there is a potential problem brewing in Kazkahstan's ethnic demographics

In the Sámi Finnish context, the category of ethnicity is far less pronounced.

The fact that this will come about because of ethnic animosity is sad and depressing.

Regardless of gender, nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, financial or social status.

This is not a communal protest against any particular ethnicity or particular person.

The Kibaki administration used this year to entrench power in the hands of a small ethnic Kikuyu clique.

Ethnic Egyptians are by far the largest ethnic group in the country, constituting 91 of the total population.

They are people who do not confine their minds to a dubious history, state borders and ethnicity.

Thanks to ethnic polarization, the Durand Line, or the Afghanistan Pakistan border, exists today only on maps.

In view of the risk of inciting fresh antagonism, gathering racial, religious, and ethnic statistics may not be worth it.

But the prospect of a jihadist style ethnic war that extends throughout the Levant is not especially attractive, either.

Culturally, ethnically, and linguistically, Afghans are more closely related to Iranians than they are to Arabs.

Should suspects be placed under surveillance because they belong to a particular religious or ethnic community?

Why does it appear to be impossible to resolve national and ethnic conflicts by civil, political, and non violent means?

They cannot forget that Maliki was in charge during the ethnic cleansing of Baghdad s Sunni Muslims.

They have strong ties to their own peoples and it is their duty to ensure that they prosper before other tribes.

Other Arab countries Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, for example are sharply divided along tribal, ethnic, and religious lines.

But from an ethnic point of view, those in power owe no allegiance to a nation state identity.

The distribution of wealth and power among Ethiopia's 100 million citizens falls suspiciously along ethnic lines.

It puts at risk only the ethnically narrow and religiously intolerant structure of the regime.

(e) Any form of propaganda designed to promote or incite racial or ethnic discrimination directed against them.

It showed how the French administration juggles the limits of the law in trying to define people as communities, without being accused of discrimination against the same people The confusion between travelers and gypsies comes in part from the unique provision in the French administration that prohibits the description of part of the population along ethnic lines.

There was also an increased tendency for both sides to view the other with mistrust that at times bordered on ethnic hatred.

Societies became racially and ethnically complex, as the European, Amerindian, and African populations intermarried, but the long term trend of European dominance, indigenous and Afro American subservience, and entrenched poverty became a scar on Latin American societies.

Thus, there is a distinction between mentioning the original nationality, which is allowed, and mentioning ethnic and racial origins, which is not.

It puts at risk only the ethnically narrow and religiously intolerant structure of the regime.

That view is backed up by the polls most striking results very widespread rejection of inequality based on race, ethnicity, or sex.

An annual cultural festival called the Lovely Toraja showcases the ethnic group's traditional songs and dances.

Recent violence in Myanmar between Rohingya insurgents and Myanmar security forces has forced tens of thousands of Rohingyas to flee the country.

Indeed, many argue that by refusing to take into account distinctions linked to ethnic and religious origin, these distinctions are legitimized.

A concomitant of such Kurzschluss between mainstream leaders and voters has always been the politics of accentuated ethnic identity, ultra nationalism, and outright bigotry.

Reaffirming that terrorism cannot and should not be associated with any religion, nationality, civilization or ethnic group,

Families and friends across gender, age, religious and ethnic divides had come together and placed themselves on the sidelines, ready to act as cheering squads.

The government of Buddhist majority Myanmar doesn't recognize the Rohingya people as among the country s ethnic groups and denies them citizenship.

Indeed, there is no specific religious or ethnic character to these riots, in so far as youth from various ethnic backgrounds have taken part.

Much of this new tone in Malaysia's ethnic politics has gone unnoticed due to the furor surrounding Mahathir's efforts to discredit his former deputy, Anwar Ibrahim.

He identified his source a Hutu and reported that arms were ready for the impending ethnic cleansing.

By sending its troops to South Ossetia, Georgia no doubt was politically reckless, but it did not breach any international rule, however nominal its sovereignty may be.

Nor do genocide or ethnic cleansing seem to have occurred if war crimes were perpetrated, they do not justify a military invasion.

The new week commenced with a memorial for those that died on April 7 in Bishkek, and a demonstration against ethnic discrimination in Dostuk, Jalal Abad oblast.