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In one case, a document describing a plot directed against Christian minorities turned out to have been in police possession before the authorities claimed to have recovered it from a suspect.
A first step in the national healing process must include exploring in a public way the grievances of the country’s minorities, both Tamil and Muslim, and discussing the violations perpetrated by the LTTE and the government during the conflict.
Every time Trump’s opponents march for women, Muslims, or sexual minorities, they fortify Trump’s core support base.
A genuinely representative assembly in the twenty-first century will not establish a polity that tolerates political prisoners, censorship, oppression of minorities and women, torture, disappearances, or detention without trial.
In his campaign, he targeted vulnerable groups and pledged to reduce or eliminate protections for minorities, women, and the poor.
It would either have to tighten sanctions on Russia, potentially tipping Western Europe into recession as Russia responds with counter-sanctions, or accommodate the Kremlin’s expansionist ambitions and jeopardize other countries with Russian-speaking minorities (including the EU’s Baltic members).
which I have long envisioned as one way for the Arab region to address its problems with religious and ethnic minorities.
Myanmar’s persecuted minorities would gain the opportunity to help shape their country’s fledgling democracy.
As a new report by the Open Society Justice Initiative shows, by targeting ethnic minorities, police alienate some of the very people on whom they depend for cooperation and intelligence.
The rise of right-wing populism reflects revived yearnings for pure national communities that keep immigrants and minorities out.
The record of the Commonwealth countries in regard to ethnic minorities can also be substantially improved.
In too many countries, minorities, especially indigenous groups, are treated heavy-handedly.
This does not mean that local politics is easy; witness today’s fraught relations between police and racial minorities in US cities.
Right-wing populist parties in Europe regularly whip up popular sentiment against Muslim minorities by condemning their treatment of women.
Russian minorities still waiting to be “redeemed” in Ukraine, the Baltic states, and Moldova are potential triggers for Russia’s neo-imperialism.
The last US president showed empathy for minorities and immigrants; defended human and civil rights; achieved a diplomatic breakthrough with Iran; sought peace in Palestine; and, most problematic, attempted to hold the Israeli leader to account.
Yet Alawites and other minorities, particularly Christians, do remain largely supportive of the regime, given their all-too-real fear of sectarian reprisals.
There was no shortage of domestic villains: trade unions, miners, teachers, doctors, the BBC, ethnic minorities, the Scots, the Welsh, and Irish Catholics.
In 1995, opinion polls showed that only a minority of the country felt “British,” while many groups – namely young people, ethnic minorities, Londoners, Scots, and Welsh – felt poorly represented.
In some ways, Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia have shared some of the hostility suffered by Jews in the West.
Like the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the Zika outbreak in Central and South America in 2015 hit vulnerable social groups – women and children, ethnic minorities, and the poor – the hardest.
Thailand’s Democratic DisorderBANGKOK – From Thailand to Turkey to Ukraine, the relationship between ruling majorities and electoral minorities has become combustible – and is threatening to erode the legitimacy of democracy itself.
In emerging democracies, electoral minorities tend to be tied to the old establishment, and often oppose change led by popular upstarts.
The proliferation of information technology, together with the unprecedented popular participation that it has fueled, means that electoral minorities have a growing number of increasingly powerful tools at their disposal to organize movements aimed at paralyzing their countries’ governments and even shortening leaders’ terms in office.
But, while the right to peaceful protest is critically important in a democracy, electoral minorities should not use endless demonstrations to take the political system hostage.
In order to create a peaceful, stable, and effective democratic system, electoral minorities must accept the ballot box as the arbiter of political legitimacy.
For right-wing populists, foreigners, immigrants, or ethnic and religious minorities serve the same purpose.
This explains why Syria’s Christian and Druze minorities now support Assad, and why the Copts in Egypt support military rule: democratic majoritarian rule means Muslim hegemony.
As in Russia, where gays and other minorities have been officially targeted, America’s disenchanted are being encouraged to harass and demonize already marginalized groups.
Whether China can develop a formula to manage an expanding urban middle class, regional inequality, and resentment among ethnic minorities remains to be seen.
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