Think about the United States at the turn of the twentieth century: urban machines, often ethnically motivated, coercion, ballot stuffing, outright criminal activities.

One of the reasons for the silence is that few agree that the attack was ethnically motivated.

The police have yet to say definitively that the attack was ethnically motivated.

Ethnic Bias: Concern was voiced that proposals were ethnically motivated and would only serve a minority of the population.

Police officials said that they had not identified the attackers, and that it was not possible to say whether the shooting was ethnically motivated.

Citing the deaths of Uyghur civilians in the attack, a government spokesperson said that the attack was apparently not ethnically motivated.

There is no evidence at this point that the crime was ethnically motivated, Chief Keresey said, but the police have not dismissed the possibility.

Some are ethnically motivated, while at least some of the looting appears to be the work of opportunistic profiteers.

Killings, beatings, looting, rape and deprivation of food continue, especially in the west and north, and are often ethnically motivated.

Although the police say they still do not know if the violence is ethnically motivated, the Indians fear that it must be.