1.   In Indonesia, Muslim rebels in the west, secessionists in the east and sectarian clashes on the islands in between have crippled confidence.

2.   In the past, protests by Catholic residents have ended in violent sectarian clashes.

3.   Police increased security in the mountain towns of Kishtwar and Bhadarwah to avert sectarian clashes, they said.

4.   Police armored vehicles lined the route to the Catholic Holy Cross Girls Primary School, which was at the center of sectarian clashes last fall.

5.   A month earlier, Sadat arrested hundreds of opponents after sectarian clashes in Cairo.

6.   Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto warned earlier this week that she would crackdown on militants involved in increasingly violent sectarian clashes.

7.   State-controlled newspapers had carried warnings urging revelers to steer clear of actions that could threaten national unity, meaning anti-government protests or sectarian clashes.

8.   The comments are the strongest yet by a U.S. government representative on the six weeks of sectarian clashes in Gujarat.

9.   Thousands have died in sectarian clashes there during the past two years.

10.   They generally live in peace with the Muslim majority, though tensions sometimes escalate into sectarian clashes.