Meanings of ethnic war in English

The Beer Wars had evolved into an ethnic war, chiefly the Irish versus the Sicilians.

They presaged the "suppurating ethnic war" in which bodies would repeatedly roll in the surf.

Bosnia emerged from ethnic war in the 1990s divided into two autonomous regions, the Serb Republic and the Bosniak-Croat Federation.

The FNL signed a peace deal in mid-2006 that ended two decades of ethnic war, but tensions have remained high.

In an ethnic war such as Sri Lanka, governments tend to suspect aid workers from the same ethnic group as rebels.

Bombino isn't alone in thinking that only the French army stands in the way of all-out ethnic war in northern Mali.

Tells how India became an active participant in the 4-year ethnic war showing itself to be on the side of the Tamils.

Beijing is an increasingly important partner for Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has made ending decades of ethnic war her top priority.

A BOSNIAN Croat general, indicted for crimes against humanity committed during Bosnia's ethnic war, surrendered to the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague yesterday.

Indeed, the ethnic wars of the modern era are a direct result of said colonial period.

Ethnic wars of the 1990s or the booming tourism on its pristine Adriatic coast are the far more common associations.

Many fled persecution and ethnic wars as well as poverty and have lived in the camps with no legal means of making an income.