United Nations officials say the campaign constitutes ethnic cleansing, while the United States Congress has labeled it genocide.
Panelists of the event provided context for the current crisis and cited startling statistics of pervasive and systematic violence against the Rohingya, violence that constitutes ethnic cleansing by U.N. standards.
The Arab militias, known as Janjaweed and equipped by the Sudanese government, are accused of killing up to 30,000 darker-skinned Africans, raping women and girls, destroying crops and polluting water supplies in a campaign that United Nations officials say constitutes ethnic cleansing and Congress has called genocide.
When asked if the atrocities in Darfur constituted ethnic cleansing, he said, "No, I firmly believe it is a civil war".
Such variety is a far cry from what used to constitute ethnic programming: renting an Italian hour here, a German hour there, on a weekend afternoon, on someone else's station.
On Wednesday, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Myanmar's military action against the minority Rohingya population constituted ethnic cleansing.
Individuals should have the right to together constitute ethnic, not only civic, people, and, as such, to determine their own polity, changing, if need be, state borders, even establishing new states.
Many of the region's peoples from lowland or settled agricultural societies control national governments and constitute ethnic majorities in "national" population counts.
The court found that the political exclusion of national minorities constitutes unlawful ethnic discrimination.
In the following analysis, we identify problems in the telephone interactions when asking the ethnicity question, including caller uncertainty about how to respond, in particular how to self-identify and what constitutes an ethnic category, caller resistance to providing an answer to the question and, finally, call-handler presumptions about caller responses and their impact on validity.
The Zaramo, a highly diluted and urbanized group, constitute another ethnic group of considerable size and influence.
