After ethnic rioting in 1981 and continuing violence, about 20,000 Serbs, out of the province's population of 1.8 million, fled from Kosovo.
The city is a key industrial center and the scene of the Soviet Union's worst reported ethnic rioting in decades.
Hu Jintao curtailed his participation following the eruption of ethnic rioting in Ürümqi.
Angus Roxburgh during the violence reported that at least six more Armenians were killed due to ethnic rioting in Kirovabad.
Approximately 26 Armenians and 6 Azerbaijanis died, with over 2000 injuries in 3 days of ethnic rioting.
On July 5, 2009 ethnic rioting took place between Uyghurs and Han in Ürümqi, the capital of Xinjiang.
Founded a year ago in the middle of ethnic rioting that ended in a worker's being shot to death, the university continues a tenuous existence.
In ethnic rioting in the city in July 1983, Sinhalese convicts killed 35 prisoners.
Soon, ethnic rioting broke out between Armenians and Azeris, preventing a solid unification from taking place.
On 9 June violence erupted in the southern city of Osh with ethnic Kyrgyz rioting, attacking minority Uzbeks and lighting their property ablaze.