The Nagorno-Karabakh War Hostile_encounter was an ethnic and territorial conflict Hostile_encounter that took place Process_start in the late 1980s to May 1994 , in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern Azerbaijan , between the majority ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh backed by Armenia , and the Republic of Azerbaijan .

The demand Request to unify with Armenia began Process_start in a relatively peaceful manner in 1988 ; in the following months , as the Soviet Union disintegrated Change , it gradually grew Expansion into an increasingly violent conflict Hostile_encounter between Armenians and Azerbaijanis , resulting in Causation claims Statement of ethnic cleansing by both sides .

Within days , German commandants evacuated Escaping the concentration camps , sending Sending the prisoners on their death marches to the west , where ethnic Germans also started Process_start fleeing Escaping .

By the early 20th century , Bulgaria , Greece , Montenegro and Serbia had achieved Achieve independence from the Ottoman Empire , but large elements of their ethnic populations remained under Ottoman rule .

Circassia ( Cherkessia in Russian ) refers Adducing to a region the majority of whose inhabitants before the 1860s were the Adygey ( Adyghey , Adyghe ) ethnic group , known Know to the West as Circassians .

In 2015 , the court ruled Legal_rulings that it was not genocidal , and it affirmed Response that the Serb population fled Escaping as a direct result of the offensive , although ruling that Croatia did not have the specific intent to displace the country 's Serb minority , nor was it found Know that ethnic cleansing or civilian targeting took place Process_start .

Urdu-speaking Biharis in Bangladesh ( ethnic minority ) were also in support Supporting of Pakistani military .

The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related ethnic conflicts , wars Hostile_encounter of independence and insurgencies fought Hostile_encounter in the former Yugoslavia from 1991 to 2001 , which led to Causation the breakup of the Yugoslav state .

Its constituent republics declared Expressing_publicly independence , despite unresolved tensions between ethnic minorities in the new countries , fueling Supply the wars Hostile_encounter .

As a result , the JNA began Process_start to lose Earnings_and_losses Slovenes , Croats , Kosovar Albanians , Bosniaks , and ethnic Macedonians , and effectively became Becoming a Serb army .

The offensive provoked Causation accusations Judgment_communication that Croatian troops had committed Committing_crime ethnic cleansing and civil-rights abuses .

CNDP is sympathetic to the Banyamulenge in Eastern Congo , an ethnic Tutsi group , and to the Tutsi-dominated government of neighboring Rwanda .

The clash resulted in Causation one killed Killing on each side and contributed Giving to the worsening ethnic tensions .

The government responded Response to attacks Attack by carrying out Attack a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Darfur 's non-Arabs .

The other side is made up Creating of rebel groups , notably the SLM/A and the JEM , recruited Becoming_a_member primarily from the non-Arab Muslim Fur , Zaghawa , and Masalit ethnic groups .

It also significantly changed Change ethnic castes as well as reducing Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the power of many of the local rulers ( `` raja '' ) .

The parade Social_event has been critiqued Judgment_communication by local residents , academics , and the media for its racist depiction of minority groups , which , despite an official ban on blackface effective in 1964 , has continued to include Cause_to_be_included blackface , brownface , or redface caricatures and other racial and ethnic impersonation , as of 2017 's parade .

The 1740 Batavia massacre Killing ( , literally `` Murder Killing of the Chinese '' ; , meaning `` Chinatown Tumult Killing '' ) was a pogrom Killing in which Dutch East Indies soldiers and native collaborators Collaboration killed Killing ethnic Chinese residents of the port city of Batavia ( present-day Jakarta ) in the Dutch East Indies .

Historians have estimated Statement that at least 10,000 ethnic Chinese were massacred Killing ; just 600 to 3,000 are believed Know to have survived Coming_to_be .

On 7 October , hundreds of ethnic Chinese , many of them sugar mill workers , killed Killing 50 Dutch soldiers , leading Causation Dutch troops to confiscate Removing all weapons from the Chinese populace and to place Placing the Chinese under a curfew .

Two days later , rumours of Chinese atrocities Violence led Causation other Batavian ethnic groups to burn Chinese houses along Besar River and Dutch soldiers to fire Use_firearm cannon at Chinese homes .

The following year , attacks Attack on ethnic Chinese throughout Java sparked Causation the two-year Java War that pitted Hostile_encounter ethnic Chinese and Javanese forces Military_operation against Dutch troops .

The following year , attacks Attack on ethnic Chinese throughout Java sparked Causation the two-year Java War that pitted Hostile_encounter ethnic Chinese and Javanese forces Military_operation against Dutch troops .

During the war Hostile_encounter , there was also ethnic violence Violence between Bengalis and Urdu-speaking Biharis .

Soldiers from the army of the Kingdom of Serbs , Croats and Slovenes ( `` later '' Yugoslavia ) , under the command Control of Slovene officer Rudolf Maister , killed Killing between 9 and 13 civilians of German ethnic origin , wounding Bodily_harm a further 60 , during a protest in a city centre square .

Most of the victims Death were members Becoming_a_member of the predominantly Shia Twelver ethnic Hazara community , and authorities expected Statement the death Death toll to rise due Causation to the large number of serious injuries Bodily_harm .

The conflict Hostile_encounter resulted Causation from political , economic , ethnic , cultural and religious tensions which preceded Process_start Britain 's formal decolonization of Nigeria from 1960 to 1963 .

The protest encompassed Surrounding women from six ethnic groups ( Ibibio , Andoni , Orgoni , Bonny , Opobo , and Igbo ) .

The ethnic cleansing Emptying of non-Christians was led Bringing by Joseph Saade ; he was a Phalangist whose son was killed Killing in Fanar ( Matn ) earlier during the day .

The attacker , Şeyh Abdurrahman Alagöz ( 20 ) , an ethnic Kurd from Adıyaman , reportedly had links Connect to Islamic State militants .

A 73-year-old ethnic Indian Singaporean man , Aravindan Balakrishnan , and a 67-year-old Tanzanian woman , his wife , Chanda Pattni , had been investigated Criminal_investigation for slavery Committing_crime and domestic servitude Committing_crime .

The 2010 Jos riots Violence were clashes Violence between Muslim and Christian ethnic groups in central Nigeria in and near the city of Jos .

The clashes Violence have been characterised Judgment_communication as `` religious violence Violence '' by many news sources , although others cite ethnic and economic differences as the root of the violence Violence .

However , despite the security crisis , Iraq 's parliament did not allow Preventing_or_letting Maliki to declare Expressing_publicly a state of emergency ; many Sunni Arab and ethnic Kurdish legislators boycotted the session because they opposed Preventing_or_letting expanding the prime minister 's powers .

Despite the war 's short duration , it was marked Recording by widespread destruction and extensive ethnic violence Violence , with hundreds of thousands killed Killing in the fighting Hostile_encounter and accompanying pogroms .

The 2012 Rakhine State riots Violence were a series of conflicts Violence primarily between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine State , Myanmar , though by October Muslims of all ethnicities had begun Process_start to be targeted .

The South Ossetians destroyed Destroying most ethnic Georgian villages in South Ossetia and were responsible for an ethnic cleansing of Georgians .

The South Ossetians destroyed Destroying most ethnic Georgian villages in South Ossetia and were responsible for an ethnic cleansing of Georgians .

The war displaced Motion 192,000 people and while many returned Motion to their homes after the war Hostile_encounter , 20,272 people , mostly ethnic Georgians , remained Presence displaced as of 2014 .

The majority of the victims were ethnic Serbs , arrested Arrest in Gospić and the nearby coastal town of Karlobag .

The offensive Military_operation , and in particular the degree of Turkish involvement Participation in it , has been widely attributed Judgment_communication with the deportation Removing of the native ethnic Armenians of the town of Kessab , who make up 70 % of its population , and has been compared Check with the past Turkish killings Killing of Armenians during the Hamidian massacres Killing and Armenian Genocide .

The main targets Aiming of the violence were ethnic Chinese ; however , most of the casualties occurred Presence among the Javanese Indonesian looters due Causation to a massive fire .

Xinjiang is a multi-ethnic Chinese province-level subdivision where no ethnic group makes up the majority .

The Caucasian War ( ; `` Kavkazskaya vojna '' ) of 1817–1864 was an invasion Attack of the Caucasus by the Russian Empire which resulted in Causation Russia 's annexation of the areas of the North Caucasus , and the ethnic cleansing of Circassians .

At the time the U.S. took Creating possession of the region , Native Americans were by far the largest ethnic groups .

French and British traders had mixed Cause_to_amalgamate with native society in the area for many decades peacefully contributing Giving to the society and creating Creating new ethnic groups consisting of mixed-race peoples .

The coup failed and the rebellion developed Coming_to_be into an ethnic conflict Hostile_encounter between the Gaelic Irish and old English Catholics on one side , and both ethnically English Protestants and Scottish/Presbyterian planters on the other .

The Abkhaz–Georgian conflict Hostile_encounter involves Cause_to_be_included ethnic conflict Hostile_encounter between Georgians and the Abkhaz people in Abkhazia , a `` de facto '' independent Change_of_leadership , partially recognized Know republic .

Georgians formed Coming_to_be the single largest ethnic group in pre-war Abkhazia , with a 45.7 % plurality as of 1989 but most Georgians left Departing in Abkhazia want to remain Presence independent Creating of Georgia .

During the war Military_operation the Abkhaz separatist side carried out Action an ethnic cleansing campaign Military_operation which resulted in Causation the expulsion Removing of up to 250,000 ethnic Georgians and in the killing Killing of from 4,000 to 15,000 .