He returned home because of the ethnic violence in Xinjiang province in northwest China.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

Members of the ethnic Hutu majority killed Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Commodore Bainimarama seized power claiming the elected government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase was dishonest and pursuing racist policies against the ethnic Indian minority.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

a secular,left-leaning party whose members are mostly from the ethnic Chinese and Indian minorities;

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

Reports by the ethnic Karen National Union in some other areas [as well say attacks by the Burmese military started in early July in the northern Karen state of that borders Thailand.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

The ethnic Uzbek leader, who was a candidate in the country's 2004 election, is widely reported to be at least partly responsible for the alleged massacre of some 2,000 Taliban prisoners after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and a cover-up of the deaths.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

That's because all the ethnic leaders, ceasefire leaders, all the ethnic party leaders, all dissident leaders, all the leaders, they agree to give their mandate to Aung San Suu Kyi to sit down at the dialogue table with the military junta."

VOA: standard.2009.06.19

Violence between the ethnic Goula and Kara communities in the north earlier this year subsided when rebels from the largely Goula Union of Democratic Forces for Unity began fighting alongside government troops to regain control of the city of Birao, near the borders of Chad and Sudan.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

So we think that the rights of the defendant have been respected,". The 64-year-old former politician, psychiatrist,poet and new age guru is charged with two counts of genocide one for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the other for the ethnic cleansing of Muslims and Croats from parts of Bosnia.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Within around thirty years the Census Bureau expects racial and ethnic minorities to form the majority of America's population.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

For example,husbands and wives in some ethnic groups are tested for the possibility of having a child with Tay-Sachs.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

They say the drug should be tested on thousands more people, including those in different risk, age and ethnic groups.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

The census form asks ten questions, including the number of people living in each house, their ethnic group and race.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

She noted that racial and ethnic minorities were less likely to have insurance and less likely to get the treatments they needed.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

But that attempt was canceled after a storm caused a giant mass of snow to slide down the mountain, killing seven ethnic Sherpa guides.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

The Shangaan are an ethnic group living in southern Mozambique and parts of South Africa.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

Hispanics are now the nation's largest ethnic minority, and a fast growing group of voters.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

The more powerful culture rarely respects the language and culture of smaller ethnic groups.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

The law bars police from detaining anyone based on ethnic or racial appearance.

VOA: special.2010.07.03

It originally began as a separatist movement of ethnic Dioula fighting for greater autonomy from the government in Dakar.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

Burma's military rulers cite ongoing fighting with ethnic insurgent groups in the country to partly justify their continued grip on power.

VOA: standard.2009.06.19

And that involves the intentional destruction of a group in whole or in part for religious,ethnic or racial reasons.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18