Ethnic Unrest | featured news

At least 56 people have been killed and nearly 2,000 homes destroyed in the latest outbreak of ethnic violence in western Myanmar, a government official said Thursday....

Kyrgyzstan's interim rulers sent troops on Tuesday to quell ethnic violence that has threatened their fragile grip on the Central Asian state after the overthrow of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.

A man and a teenage boy have been charged with the killing of Eugene TerreBlanche, who served a sentence for beating a black worker and setting dogs on a gas station attendant.

Nine men have been executed for taking part in ethnic rioting that left nearly 200 people dead in July, the first suspects put to death in the unrest, Chinese state media reported Monday....

The men were sentenced by a Chinese court for their roles in the deadly ethnic rioting that convulsed the regional capital of Urumqi in July, the state news agency said.

Police shot dead two Uighurs on Monday in renewed unrest in China's far northwestern region of Xinjiang, Reuters reported state radio as saying.

At least 184 people died in last weekend's violent protests in China's far-west Xinjiang region, state-run media reported.