31.   From the beginning, the civil war in Zaire could not be disentangled from the longtime ethnic conflict in neighboring Rwanda between Hutu and Tutsi.

32.   Geyer said the myth about the war in the former Yugoslavia is the tendency to call it an ethnic conflict.

33.   From the start, the war in Zaire has been entwined with the ethnic conflict between Hutu and Tutsi in neighboring Rwanda.

34.   He also opposed the view the United States has no business intervening in ethnic conflicts in the Balkans that have been raging for centuries.

35.   He told them the peace they had constructed should now become the model for warring communities in other ethnic conflicts around the world.

36.   Hundreds of people have died in similar ethnic conflicts with the Dayaks, who believe that they have been marginalized by the new settlers.

37.   Hundreds of thousands of Rwandans and others perished in the ethnic conflict.

38.   In a report that circulated to council members Monday, Annan warned of the consequences for the Balkans if ethnic conflict is not contained.

39.   In addition to Rwanda, ethnic conflicts in Africa have occurred in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Angola and Somalia.

40.   In future ethnic conflicts, the United States and its allies will have to be better prepared to handle hordes of displaced people.