Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conclude that the 'Controlled Choice' student assignment plan is not one of rigid racial quotas intended to obtain racial and ethnic balance," they wrote. "It is a flexible plan that guarantees access for all population groups to all the regular educational offerings of the Boston School System...
Harshbarger said class will cover issues he dealt with as attorney general, including health care fraud, gun and tobacco litigation, and the impact of race and ethnic bias...
...Unlike Kosovo?s Serbs and ethnic Albanians, its Gypsies have few international advocates speaking out on their behalf. U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson and its high commissioner for refugees, Sadako Ogata, have both visited some of the thousands of Gypsy refugees crammed into makeshift facilities inside Kosovo, and vowed to provide them with support. And pan-European Gypsy organizations such as the Romany Union and the European Roma Rights Center have sought urgent undertakings from NATO to protect their kin in Kosovo. In the end, though, there may be some cynical politics in play. "The campaign against the Gypsies...
...That many Roma people worked for the Serbs ? usually as manual laborers ?- throughout their campaign of violence against ethnic Albanians is not in dispute. "Ever since Serbia withdrew Kosovo?s autonomy in 1989, the authorities have been reluctant to hire ethnic Albanians even as street cleaners," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "Because they accepted employment by the Serbs at a time when Albanians were boycotting all Serb institutions, they gained a reputation for siding with the Serbs. But as is the case all over the Balkans and Europe, Gypsies have always been the lowest class of citizen...
...Amid the fury of the returning Kosovars, however, the Gypsy population as a whole is being targeted for retribution, regardless of whether they actually worked for the Serbs or not. "What?s being done to the Gypsies now is ethnic cleansing ?- it can?t be called by any other name," says Anastasijevic. "It?s directed against an entire ethnic group. And if those responsible this campaign against the Gypsies are allowed to get away with it, it will legitimize further violence against other minorities in Kosovo, such as the Turks...