Others, they say, may date back four years to one of the earliest waves of ethnic killing in the Bosnian conflict.

It has managed to stop ethnic killing.

Full-scale ethnic killing would become a very real possibility.

At another level, there is a fear that the ethnic killings of Rwanda could happen here as well.

After all, regimes that resort to ethnic killing and deportation as a tool of statecraft rarely keep their word.

As the scale of the ethnic killing became evident, demands mounted that "something must be done".

As the city changed hands, there was also no sign of the ethnic killings that had once been feared by military planners.

Furthermore, ethnic killings and human rights violations in Abkhazia were condemned.

Some leaders openly call for ethnic killings, while others carry them out in silence.

More than 23,000 have been rounded up to await trial for the ethnic killings, in prisons nearly as miserable as the police station.