A vivid example of the possibilities for ethnic turmoil was in the report itself.

What is left is the role Soviet troops are playing today: the suppression of internal political and ethnic turmoil.

The theme in her work is ethnic and religious turmoil in Sri Lanka.

All sides agree on the need for foreign-language broadcasting, and on expanding broadcast services to countries torn by ethnic turmoil.

The first multiparty elections since 1955 occur as Indonesia, the country worst hit by the Asian financial crisis, is undergoing economic and ethnic turmoil.

Israel is, in short, a nation that passes most of its days right on the edge - riding 4,000 years of religious, ethnic and tribal turmoil.

But rather than playing the sinister dictator in the wings, the army has appeared increasingly to stumble in Yugoslavia's latest round of ethnic turmoil.

In some countries, like Liberia and Somalia, ethnic turmoil followed victories by insurgents.

A counter-revolution would unleash social and ethnic turmoil with which the putschists, even if initially successful, could not cope.

The violence here comes at a time of increasing ethnic and sectarian turmoil throughout Nigeria.