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Iran had put itself in isolation because of its radicalism, and after having helped the United States indirectly in the war against Iraq in 1991, the Iranians were hoping that they would be rewarded by being included in the post-war security architecture of the region.

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Today I want to talk to you about ethnic conflict and civil war.

This quickly escalated into a five-day war between Russia and Georgia, leaving Georgia ever more divided.

In Sri Lanka, a decades-long civil war between the Tamil minority and the Sinhala majority led to a bloody climax in 2009, after perhaps as many as 100,000 people had been killed since 1983.

They exclude people that died as a consequence of civil war, from hunger or disease, for example.

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