Ethnic Violence

Central Nigeria ethnic violence kills 19, displaces 4,500

Agence France-Presse | Tuesday April 2, 2013

Weekend attacks on three communities in volatile and ethnically divided central Nigeria have left 19 people dead and displaced some 4,500 others, a local official said on Tuesday.

UN mission leaves East Timor 13 years after vote

Associated Press | Monday December 31, 2012

The United Nations ended its peacekeeping mission in East Timor on Monday, leaving the country without any direct security assistance for the first time since a spasm of political and ethnic violence in 2006 almost overwhelmed its shaky, post-indepen...

Tamils demand army withdrawal after Sri Lanka clashes

Agence France-Presse | Thursday November 29, 2012

Sri Lanka's main Tamil party on Thursday demanded troops be withdrawn to barracks in the former rebel heartland of Jaffna after the worst ethnic violence since the end of the island's decades-long civil war.

Tamils demand army withdrawal after Sri Lanka clashes

Agence France-Presse | Thursday November 29, 2012

Sri Lanka's main Tamil party on Thursday demanded troops be withdrawn to barracks in the former rebel heartland of Jaffna after the worst ethnic violence since the end of the island's 37-year conflict.

Curfew lifted for few hours in Kokrajhar

Reported by Kishalay Bhattacharjee, edited by Samira Shaikh | Sunday November 18, 2012

The curfew has been relaxed in Assam's violence hit Kokrajhar district from 10 am to 4 pm today. Four people, including a child, died Friday night after fresh violence broke out in Kokrajhar. In the last ten days, a total of 10 people have been kill...

Four more die in fresh violence in Kokrajhar, Bodo Territorial Council member arrested with weapons

Reported by Kishalay Bhattacharjee; Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Saturday November 17, 2012

Four people, including a child, died last night after fresh violence broke out in the district of Kokrajhar in Assam. In the last week, a total of 10 people - including last night's victims - have been killed in the district, which in July was the ep...

The return of the curfew in Assam's Kokrajhar: 10 big developments

Reported by Kishalay Bhattacharjee; edited by Surabhi Malik | Friday November 16, 2012

In the last week, six people have been killed in the district of Kokrajhar, which in July was the epicenter of sustained ethnic violence, the worst in over a decade in the state of Assam. The area is simmering again because of a new surge of hostilit...

Assam on edge: six dead, PM phones chief minister

Kishalay Bhattacharjee | Friday November 16, 2012

Two months after Assam witnessed its worst ethnic violence in a decade, the epicentre of those riots, in which more than 99 people were killed and five lakhs displaced from their homes, is simmering again.

Gunmen kill five Christians in northern Nigeria: Police

Agence France-Presse | Monday November 12, 2012

Gunmen have shot dead five Christian residents of a town in a restive northeastern Nigerian region previously hit by deadly Islamist attacks, the police said.

Two killed in fresh ethnic violence in Kokrajhar

Press Trust of India | Saturday November 10, 2012

In a fresh outbreak of ethnic violence in Assam's Bodoland, two persons were killed in Kokrajhar district today, a senior police official said.

Death toll reaches over 100 in Myanmar ethnic strife

Associated Press | Friday October 26, 2012

The death toll from recent ethnic violence in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine has surpassed 100, an official said Friday, as the government warned that the strife risks harming the country's reputation as it seeks to install democratic rule.

56 dead in new ethnic violence in Myanmar

Associated Press | Thursday October 25, 2012

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

Assam ethnic trouble far from over, says Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde

Reported by Sudhi Ranjan Sen | Thursday September 13, 2012

Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has told the Union cabinet on Thursday that there could be fresh violence in Assam, said sources. At a meeting of the Cabinet committee on political affairs (CCPA) - the top political decision making body which is he...

In this Assam town, a determined effort to fight communal tension

Reported by Kishalay Bhattacharjee | Thursday September 13, 2012

Dhubri town served as a refuge for hundreds of people who were affected by the recent ethnic violence in Assam, the worst in the state in over a decade.

Rahul Gandhi to visit troubled areas of Assam

Press Trust of India | Monday September 10, 2012

Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will visit the ethnic violence-hit areas of Assam on Tuesday. During his one day programme, Mr Gandhi will go to the trouble-torn districts including Dhubri and Kokrajhar, where the violence between the local B...