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Karachi, Pakistan paralyzed by ethnic violence
Over the past four days, a wave of ethnic violence has killed at least 95 people in Karachi, paralyzing Pakistan’s largest city. Some roads are deserted, shopping malls and markets are shuttered.
Masked militants used Molotov cocktails and rockets, attacked public passenger buses and burned down houses, killing 25 people on Friday alone, mostly in hit-and-run terror attacks in ethnically mixed...
Uneasy ‘calm’ in Conakry after post-election ethnic violence
Ethnic violence in Guinea’s capital Conakry following a disputed presidential election has left at least seven people dead. The situation appears to have calmed, but simmering tensions remain.
It was heralded as an election that would finally bring democracy to a coup-weary West African nation, but Guinea’s much-postponed Nov. 7 presidential runoff ended up exposing deep ethnic fault lines and...
Ethnic tensions in China: Han Chinese says 'Death to Uighurs' around Urumqi
The Chinese are leaning bitterly that Multiculturalism does not work for them
Women are crying, civilians have armed themselves with clubs and axes. Fear and chaos rule in Urumqi. The Han Chinese are bent on revenge on the Uighurs and the police are struggling to keep order.
All of a sudden, Urumqi is a city of wooden clubs. Everyone has one, men and women, police and civilians, Uigurs and Han Chinese....