Word: ethnicization
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...separate administrations, one for Croats and Muslims, the other for Serbs. Although no official census has been taken since 1991, Sarajevo presents an increasingly Muslim face to the world. Thousands of Orthodox Serbs and Roman Catholic Croats fled the city during the war and have not returned. "The ethnic division has been really successfully done," says Srdan Dizdarevic, president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina. "Kids are going to a mono-ethnic school, living in a mono-ethnic neighborhood and when they start work they'll be in mono-ethnic companies...
...attract the lonely teen boys who think they're too cool for a Will Ferrell dinosaur movie. Taking the multiple-amnesia theme from the 2006 melodrama Unknown and referencing about a dozen movies set in Las Vegas, it revels in the hectic display of rude elements (sexual and ethnic stereotyping, pedophile gags, inappropriate people with their pants off) that have made the form as rigid in its conventions as Kabuki theater...
...Expeditions' eight-day trek through the forests and meadows of Hovsgol province in Mongolia. The Northern Mongolia on Horseback odyssey takes place Aug. 10-24 and is designed for the more experienced horseback rider. It includes visits with nomadic families and with Tsaatans - members of the Turkic-speaking Tuvinian ethnic group known as Dukha, who herd reindeer. Rates start at $3,415, including meals, guides, horses and ground transportation...
...mine. In 2001, China formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a geo-political grouping aimed at improving economic and political relations with Russia and other Central Asian nations - as well as a vehicle for Beijing to quash support for separatists in its restive Xinjiang province, whose Muslim Uighurs share ethnic ties with Central Asia's Turkic populations. The SCO also declared in 2005 that there must be a timeline for withdrawing all U.S. military bases in Central Asia, a clear sign of Beijing and Moscow's intent to limit U.S. influence. The organization convened most recently this week in Yekaterinburg...
...broken down by province, as in previous elections. They also charge that some numbers simply don't make sense, such as Ahmadinejad's higher count in Mousavi's hometown of Tabriz and the other moderate challenger Mehdi Karroubi's less than 1% vote count, despite his relative popularity among ethnic Lors, Kurds and Sufis, as well as women's and students' rights activists...