Ethnic Violence - Examples

Examples

Difficulties of identifying ethnic violence often arise when outsiders try to understand conflicts. A telling example is from Somalia. The conflicts within Somalia are often referred to as ethnic violence, even though Somalia is one of the most ethnically homogeneous countries in Africa. Included under the term ethnic violence might include:

  • Persecution of Hazara people
  • Oldham Riots, United Kingdom
  • Bradford Riots, United Kingdom
  • PKK
  • Pogrom
  • Combat 18, United Kingdom
  • The Order, United States
  • Ku Klux Klan, United States
  • Hammerskins, International
  • Serb Paramilitary groups i.e. Arkan's White tigers and many more
  • The Croatian Ustaše headed by Ante Pavelić
  • APLA, South Africa
  • Death Angels, United States
  • MLNQ
  • Don Black (nationalist) and Operation Red Dog
  • Cronulla Race Riots in Sydney, 2005
  • 2006 Moscow market bombing, Russia
  • Riots in Kondopoga, Karelia, Russia in 2006
  • The Hedvig Malina-case
  • The Dashnaks, EOKA and Czarist Russia
  • Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM), mapuche terrorist group
  • Armenian Genocide
  • Guatemala Civil War
  • Rwandan Genocide
  • The Holocaust under the broadest of definitions
  • Trail of Tears

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