The country has been ravaged by ethnic and interreligious brutality, often perpetrated by the Christian majority, and the U.S. government thought this delegation could provide a witness of interfaith harmony even though they could only stay during the daylight hours due to the threat of violence.
The United States, he said, remains concerned about human rights abuses, the persecution of democratic reformers and brutality toward ethnic minorities.
And the brutality against ethnic separatist movements in the northeast and Kashmir demonstrates our unwillingness to make pragmatic compromises.
His language was uncompromising, condemning "colonial military occupation", "ethnic cleansing" and "the brutality of repression and racial discrimination".
This was exacerbated by frequent and indiscriminate police brutality against ethnic Somalis that served only to solidify Muslim distrust of the authorities.
One of the great fears in Washington about the Serbian brutality against ethnic Albanians in the province of Kosovo is that the violence could spread into Albania and neighboring Macedonia, which has a large ethnic Albanian population.
Also in Ivory Coast, where the Elephants' 2006 World Cup performance rallied a nation of fans still weary from the brutality of ethnic and civil war touched off when a 2002 failed coup split the West African country.
The complex integration of these factors with other 'second and third order' trends and consequences -- including the frequency, intensity, and brutality of ethnic conflict, local resource shortages, natural disasters, epidemics, mass migrations, and limited global response capabilities -- portend an extremely dynamic, complex, and uncertain global future.
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Professor Seron said in an interview yesterday that the survey was intended to gauge how people from different ethnic backgrounds view police brutality and how they view the discipline meted out to officers who are found to have engaged in brutal acts.
