It is too soon to tell if the clashes in Ambon could turn into the kind of ethnic cleansing that engulfed Bosnia after the splintering of Yugoslavia.

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They were falling in the faces of the flat Magic players who look dejected after the news of their team splintering.

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Patronage networks pervade the Afghan forces, and a crucial question is whether they can avoid splintering along ethnic and patronage lines after 2014.

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