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While the majority of the business elite is from one of the three main ethnic groups--Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, and Yoruba--its members recognize that oil drives the economy, and that the bulk of it comes from the Niger delta, inhabited by minority groups such as the Ogoni and the Ijo.

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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.

Within that sphere, most of those nodes are not actionable, like the harshness of the terrain, and a very small minority are actual military actions.

And that all stems from the perception of atheists as some kind of weird, way-out minority.

She clearly feels in a beleaguered minority.

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