• Gypsies and travellers are the largest ethnic minority group in south Cambridgeshire, making up about 1% of the population.

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  • The commonly used index of segregation, which measures the number of people who would have to move in order to spread themselves evenly over a city, shows that every large ethnic minority group became less segregated between 1991 and 2001.

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  • Sunnis were a minority ethnic group that enjoyed protection and power during the Hussein regime.

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  • The group is made up of fighters who deserted from the Congolese army following a mutiny and are mostly from the Tutsi ethnic group, a minority in eastern DR Congo.

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  • Pushtuns are a large minority in Pakistan and the biggest ethnic group in Afghanistan.

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  • That moment was likely the first time the target of his off-the-cuff comments were aimed at a popular group, instead of an ethnic minority.

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  • Some think the bombs have been planted by a loosely organised alliance made up of a group of Hmong, an ethnic minority in the north, some of whom have been fighting the Communists since 1975, and southern rebels seeking to restore the Laotian monarchy.

    ECONOMIST: Laos and the mysterious bombs

  • Jamiat is composed mostly of ethnic Tajiks, a minority in Afghanistan, and the group that held out longest against the Taliban, until the American invasion.

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  • Another factor, suggests a spokeswoman for the Russell Group, is that applications from ethnic minority pupils are disproportionately focused on some of the most over-subscribed and competitive courses, such as medicine.

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  • The daylong siege in a village about 75 miles southeast of the capital underscored the degree to which attacks by majority Buddhists against the Muslim minority in Myanmar, especially those from the Rohingya ethnic group, is reverberating outside Myanmar and especially in Indonesia, the world's most-populous Muslim-majority country with a history of terrorism by a small number of extremists.

    WSJ: Terror Suspects Slain in Indonesia

  • The Han Chinese are the country's dominant ethnic group, and the Uyghurs are a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority who consider Xinjiang their homeland.

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  • For most Pushtuns, who claim to be a majority and are certainly Afghanistan's largest ethnic group, the emerging bargain between the former monarch and the minority tribes of the Northern Alliance cedes too much power to the latter.

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  • War there has been waged between the Sri Lankan government, tending to represent the interests of Sri Lanka's majority, and predominately Buddhist, Sinhalese ethnic group, and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who claim to represent the mostly Hindu Tamil minority.

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  • It is a compromise between the claims of the Pushtuns (the country's largest ethnic group, to which both Mr Karzai and most of the Taliban belong) and the Northern Alliance of minority Tajiks and Uzbeks.

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  • The deaths in this central Myanmar town also raise the specter of a new facet to such conflicts, since this latest clash involved ethnic Burmese Muslims, rather than the ethnic minority Rohingyas, who aren't officially counted in the country's census and are seen as a foreign group by many in Myanmar.

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  • Observers say, though, that the killings in this central Myanmar town raises the specter of a new facet to such conflicts, since they involve ethnic Burmese Muslims, rather than the ethnic minority Rohingyas, who aren't officially counted in the country's census and are seen as a foreign group by many in Myanmar.

    WSJ: Myanmar Seeks to Contain Clashes

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