1. Although Kosovo has a large ethnic Albanian majority and was stripped of its autonomy, it has remained a part of Serbia. 2. At the State Department, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright made her fourth direct appeal to Serbs, the ethnic majority in the Yugoslav federation. 3. Both countries have a Hutu ethnic majority and a Tutsi minority. 4. -- Was the construction of black-majority districts any more insidious than creating districts with other ethnic majorities? 5. A majority of those evicted are Hutu, the ethnic majority in Burundi. 6. Additionally, Kosovar rebels eager to preserve the ethnic Albanian majority are blocking a mass exodus, officials said. 7. Burundi, which like neighboring Rwanda has a Hutu ethnic majority and Tutsi minority, has been experiencing a new surge of violence recently. 8. But for the moment, the Serbian forces are still driving the ethnic Albanian majority out of the province. 9. But the prime minister lost significant support among the ethnic Malay majority and the post-election period has been a time of score-settling and political arrests. 10. Emotions in Albania have run high in February as the Yugoslav President, Slobodan Milosevic, has cracked down on the ethnic Albanian majority in Kosovo. |
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