The inter-ethnic clashes from 1960 led to the dispatch of a peacekeeping force of the United Nations in 1964.

The majority of Georgians fled the district following the inter-ethnic clashes in 1993-1994 and again in 1998.

The republic has thus far been devoid of the inter-ethnic clashes that plague other parts of the fallen Soviet empire.

The most significant conflict witnessed since Kenya's independence from Britain was the 2007-08 Kenyan crisis, a series of inter-ethnic clashes ignited by the 2007 disputed presidential elections.

Karimov's election to the Uzbek Communist Party resulted after his predecessor Rafik Nishanov failed to quell inter-ethnic clashes and instability in the Fergana region.

Still, now more than ever the United States is a multicultural society, and the inter-ethnic clashes of the last year could be seen as growing pains.

Four people were killed and 15 were injured in inter-ethnic clashes near the Ivory Coast economic capital Abidjan, a defence ministry spokesman has said.

The result was a decade of revolutionary chaos that resulted in several horrific inter-ethnic clashes.

More than 1,000 people have been killed in inter-ethnic clashes in the area in the past few months, with most victims being women and children.

It has been a year since the tragic events in southern Kyrgyzstan, when more than 400 people died in the inter-ethnic clashes between Kyrgyzs and Uzbeks.