Sentence examples for ethnic riots from inspiring English sources

INDIA BANS DOCUMENTARY ON RIOTS -- An award-winning documentary about the ethnic riots in India that left more than 1,000 people dead in 2002 has been banned in India.

Thousands more took part in ethnic riots in the Xinjiang region in 2009.

In 2009, almost 200 died in vicious ethnic riots in its capital, Ürümqi.

When the ethnic riots broke out in July, Ms. Hu promptly dispatched three journalists to Urumqi.

Officials disconnected the entire Internet in Xinjiang for 10 months after the ethnic riots there in 2009.

Mr Rao's first prominent scalp was CNN, an American news network, in March 2008 after ethnic riots erupted in Tibet.

(Zoot suits lent their name to Los Angeles's ethnic riots in 1943, when off-duty servicemen rampaged, attacking Mexican-Americans).

In 2009 almost 200 people were killed when ethnic riots broke out in Urumqi, the region's capital.

The region erupted in violence two years ago with ethnic riots in which at least 197 people were killed.

The ethnic riots that this helped spark were, in effect, the first blows of Sri Lanka's civil war.Throughout the war's long history, certain cultural stereotypes have endured.

In 2009, deadly ethnic riots broke out in Urumqi, the regional capital, and security forces have been on high alert ever since.