Perhaps worse still, the fighting is already exacerbating ethnic tensions in what is an ethnically divided country.
In Kenya's ethnically divided politics, the 2007 election pitted the Kikuyu ethnic group, whose leader Mwai Kibabi was declared the winner, against Kalenjins and Luos, who believed their man, Raila Odinga, had been cheated out of victory.
The town is ethnically divided, with a Serb majority in northern Mitrovica and ethnic Albanians in the south.
Seattle Public Schools desegregated without a court order but continue to struggle to achieve racial balance in a somewhat ethnically divided city (the south part of town having more ethnic minorities than the north).
It was another blow for the ethnically divided city, which is still recovering from a recent wave of ethnic unrest in which 19 people were killed and more than 800 injured.
In ethnically divided societies, variation in rates of military recruitment across the major ethnic groups can result in the armed forces being seen as constituted by, or representing, one ethnic group against others.
They worried that it could split an ethnically divided country.
Politics have become more ethnically divided between the evenly split residents of African and Indian descent.
Despite his message of goodwill, Komsic presides over only a part of an ethnically divided city.
Peacekeepers clashed with Albanians for a second day in an ethnically divided town where seven Albanians were killed on Thursday.
