This is the wrong time to create a new ethnic grievance based on apparent international favoritism toward the Hutu.

The people who do the killing might be whipped up by ethnic grievances, but the people who lead civil wars are usually rational and greedy.

The Hatay was one place at the end of the Cold War where history had not yet come back to haunt the present through an ethnic grievance.

Nationalities in several republics have reacted to increased freedom under Mr. Gorbachev by venting political, ethnic and economic grievances.

In the midst of a huge international earthquake-rescue effort, the ethnic grievances of Soviet Armenians burst out anew today.

At the same time, there are ethnic grievances among the province's population, mostly from some Arab groups.

He used the secessionist platform to address the underlying ethnic grievances.

Far from needing ethnic grievances to perpetuate them, some civil wars can perpetuate themselves.

In the meantime, what is being lost is the idea that adopting a Western-style democracy here could could overcome decades of ethnic grievances.

One of the most incendiary causes of ethnic grievance has been the ecological threat of industrial plants built by Moscow without consulting the local population.