Almost overnight, the powder keg of ethnic hostilities that had been held in check by Communist rule begins to blow.

Where was the yelling, the screaming, the racial and ethnic hostility?

'This isn't a city, it's a staging ground for all the accumulated racial and ethnic hostilities of the last three thousand years.'

"I felt one had to be very frank about racial hostility and beyond that, ethnic hostility," he said.

The 78-year-old former leader already has been charged with misappropriating state property, inciting ethnic hostility and abuse of power.

The ethnic hostilities continued and after the World War II.

When blacks moved into mixed neighborhoods, ethnic white hostility grew.

But ethnic hostility in Bosnia remains intense.

The seven-month civil war has accentuated ethnic hostilities.

The Kremlin ordered troops to help contain ethnic hostilities in the southern Soviet republic.