Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inside, in a crowded courtroom, three young Azerbaijani defendants sat motionless as they listened to witnesses describe a violent clash between ethnic Armenians and ethnic Azerbaijanis that left 32 dead and 400 wounded in the Azerbaijani port city of Sumgait last February. Struggling to hold back tears, an aging Armenian woman described how she had watched an Azerbaijani mob burn a man to death in his automobile. A Russian doctor described the head < wounds he had found on the corpse of a man beaten to death with lead pipes...
Last week the ordeal came to an end as a three-member panel of justices sentenced Akhmet Akhmetov, 24, to death for his part in what has been described as the worst ethnic clash in Soviet history. Akhmetov, the oldest of the three men on trial, was charged with "organizing and participating in pogroms, murder and arson." The cases of his co-defendants were sent back for further investigation. "I suppose I'm pleased," said an Armenian who had come to the courtroom every day since the proceedings began on Oct. 18. "But we really wanted...
Estonian assertiveness has led to a backlash in the Russian-speaking community, where a group known as Intermovement has emerged to challenge the Popular Front. Intermovement claims 90,000 members, mostly workers in industrial areas where ethnic Russians predominate. Economist Konstantin Kiknadze, an Intermovement leader whose mother is Russian and whose father is Georgian, charges that the Popular Front wants to "exchange a Moscow bureaucracy for one that is Estonian...
Burmese dismiss fears that the profusion of political banners might indicate a dangerously splintered opposition. "By the time of elections, there will be only three or four choices," predicts La Kyo, a leader of the Arakan League for Democracy, one of a score of ethnic minority parties that have sprung into existence. Some alliances have already formed, and interparty cooperation is growing: two weeks ago, for example, 43 parties sent a petition to the military, demanding formation of an interim government...
...regime cannot survive for long -- at best until the rice harvest early next year. The government has virtually no foreign reserves. Exports have almost vanished. Western governments and Japan have cut off all their assistance, which is necessary to supply the military and maintain the decrepit industrial plant, while ethnic insurgents are applying pressure along the borders. "Logically, the government cannot hold on," says a young Burmese intellectual. "Unfortunately, there's not much logic in this government...