List of ethnic riots

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This is a list of ethnic riots, sectarian riots, and race riots, by country.

Africa

Angola

Congo

Côte d’Ivoire

Lesotho

Mauritania

Rhodesia

  • Kananga (1925) - Kananga Riot of 1925

South Africa

  • Durban (1949) - Anti-Indian riots, an inter-racial conflict between Zulus and Indians in Durban.[6]
  • Durban (1985) - Anti-Indian riots[7]
  • Port Elizabeth, South Africa (2007) - Anti-Somali riot[8]

Tanzania

  • Zanzibar (1964) - The Zanzibar Revolution of January 12, 1964 put an end to the local Arab dynasty. Thousands of Arabs were massacred in riots, and thousands more were detained or fled the island[9][10]

Zambia

America

Brazil

Canada

Mexico

United States

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Main article: Mass racial violence in the United States

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Further information: List of riots and civil unrest in Omaha, Nebraska

Nativist Period 1700s–1860

  • 1824: Providence, Rhode Island Hard Scrabble Riots
  • 1829: Cincinnati riots of 1829 Rioting against African Americans results in over a thousand leaving for Canada.
  • 1829: Charlestown Anti-Catholic Riots
  • 1831: Providence, Rhode Island
  • 1834: Massachusetts Convent Burning
  • 1834: Philadelphia pro-slavery riots[12]
  • 1834: New York City pro-slavery riots
  • 1835: Boston pro-slavery riots
  • 1835: Five Points Riot
  • 1835: Washington, D.C.[13][14]
  • 1836: Cincinnati riots of 1836 - Several anti-abolitionist riots
  • 1841: Cincinnati, Ohio White Irish-descendant and Irish immigrant dock workers rioted against Black dock workers. When the Black dock workers banded together to defend their community from the approaching Whites, the White rioters retreated and then commandeered a 6-pound cannon and shot it through the streets of Cincinnati.
  • 1844: Philadelphia Nativist Riots (May 6–8, July 5–8)
  • 1851: Hoboken Anti-German Riot
  • 1855: Louisville Anti-German Riots

Civil War Period 1861–1865

Reconstruction Period: 1865–1877

Jim Crow Period: 1878–1914

War and inter-war period: 1914–1945

Postwar era: 1946–1954

Civil Rights and Black Power Movement's Period: 1955–1977

1978 to today

Asia

Bangladesh

Burma

China

Indonesia

Israel

  • Acre, Israel (2008) - Sectarian violence erupted on 8 October 2008 turning into 5 days of violence after an Arab Israeli citizen drove through a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood during Yom Kippur.[37][38][39]
  • 2012 Israeli race riots, Tel Aviv (2012) - Race riots by Jewish Israelis against black African immigrants took place in May 2012 after the rape of an elderly woman, and an under age Israeli girl by Sudanese men in front of her boyfriend.[40][41][42][43]
  • Tel Aviv (2015) - After an Ethiopian-born IDF officer was beaten by an Israeli police officer and police volunteer, protests in Tel Aviv against racism and police brutality turned violent, with injuries among protesters and police.[44]

Malaysia

Pakistan

Palestine (British Mandate)

Singapore

Sri Lanka

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Main article: Riots and pogroms in Sri Lanka

Europe

Azerbaijan

Belgium

Bulgaria

Denmark

  • St. Croix riot (1873) - St. Croix Agricultural labor rioted against landlords and labor laws.
  • Jewish skirmishes (1820–22) - Various Danish and German cities and towns.

France

Germany

Italy

Netherlands

  • Utrecht (2007) - Utrecht Riots[55]
  • Amsterdam (2007) - Moroccan-Dutch youth sectarian violence[56]
  • The Hague (2015) - Immigrants riot after Caribbean man dies resisting arrest[57]

Poland

  • Przytyk pogrom (1936) - anti-Jewish riots in Przytyk, on March 9, 1936
  • Kraków pogrom (1945) - anti-Jewish riots that occurred on August 11, 1945, in the city of Kraków
  • Kielce pogrom (1946) - an outbreak of violence against the Jewish community of Kielce, Poland on July 4, 1946
  • Mława pogrom (1991) - a series of violent incidents in June 1991, when a crowd attacked Roma residents of the Polish town of Mława

Russia

Soviet Union

Spain

Turkey

United Kingdom

Oceania

Australia

New Zealand

  • Wellington (1943) - Battle of Manners Street was a conflict involving American servicemen versus New Zealand servicemen and civilians outside the Allied Services Club in Manners Street.

Solomon Islands

Tonga

See also

Revolution '67 - Documentary about the Newark, New Jersey race riots of 1967

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 How China's taking over Africa, and why the West should be VERY worried
  2. ↑ Rwanda Syndrome on the Ivory Coast
  3. ↑ France's 'Little Iraq'
  4. ↑ LESOTHO: Anti-Chinese resentment flares
  5. ↑ Timeline: Mauritania
  6. ↑ The Durban Riot 1949
  7. ↑ Current Africa race riots like 1949 anti-Indian riots: minister, TheIndianStar.com
  8. ↑ 27 held after anti-Somali riot: South Africa
  9. ↑ Country Histories - Empire's Children
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ Rebelions in Bahia
  12. ↑ Evan Carton, Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America, at 59 (Free Press 2006); see also http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/policing.cfm
  13. ↑ August 'Snow-Storm' Brought Devastation To D.C.. NPR. July 5, 2012.
  14. ↑ Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835. 2012 book by Jefferson Morley.
  15. ↑ [1]
  16. ↑ No deaths were reported, but all Chinese and most other Asians were expelled from Seattle and Tacoma. Schwantes, Carlos A. "Protest in a Promised Land: Unemployment, Disinheritance, and the Origin of Labor Militancy in the Pacific Northwest, 1885-1886." Western Historical Quarterly. 13:4 (October 1982).
  17. ↑ Thirty African Americans died. Robert A. Gibson, The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States, 1880-1950, Yale University, 1979.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  19. ↑ Ten African Americans and two Caucasians died. Robert A. Gibson, The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States, 1880-1950, Yale University, 1979.
  20. ↑ Two African Americans and four Caucasians died. Robert A. Gibson, The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States, 1880-1950, Yale University, 1979; Roberta Senechal, "Springfield Race Riot of 1908," Illinois History Teacher, Summer/Fall 1996.
  21. ↑ According to federal, state and local government investigators, only 39 African Americans died. But civilian investigations shortly after the riot indicate that between 100 and 200 African Americans died. The riot was notable for its brutality, including scalping, gouging out of eyes, and children acting as murderers. Elliott M. Rudwick, Race Riot at East St. Louis, Southern Illinois University Press, 1964.
  22. ↑ Twenty-three African Americans and 15 Caucasians died. Robert A. Gibson, The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States, 1880-1950, Yale University, 1979.
  23. ↑ Officially, only 39 African Americans died. But more recent estimates are that between 150 and 200 African Americans and 50 Caucasians died, and some sources put the number of black dead at 300. James S. Hirsch, Riot and Remembrance: America's Worst Race Riot and Its Legacy, Mariner Books, 2003. ISBN 0-618-34076-9; Robert A. Gibson, The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States, 1880-1950, Yale University, 1979.
  24. ↑ Officially, six African Americans and two Caucasians died. However, there is disagreement about the number of dead, and some estimates place the number of black dead between 40 and 150. Michael D'Orso, Like Judgment Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood, Putnam Books, 1996. ISBN 1-57297-256-4.
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  27. ↑ Twenty-five African Americans and nine Caucasians died. Robert A. Gibson, The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States, 1880-1950, Yale University, 1979.
  28. ↑ The Dispatch (North Carolina), December 28, 1963
  29. ↑ http://openvault.wgbh.org/ton/mla000400/index.html
  30. ↑ San Bernardino County Sun - Fontana students blame riot on simmering racial tension
  31. ↑ More Injuries as Race Riots Disrupt Jails in Los Angeles
  32. ↑ Race riot put down at California state prison
  33. ↑ Locke High School locked down after huge brawl, Los Angeles Times
  34. ↑ Xinjiang, China's Restive Northwest
  35. ↑ Indonesia Turns Its Chinese Into Scapegoats, New York Times
  36. ↑ Anti-Chinese riots continue in Indonesia, CNN
  37. ↑ Acre faces fourth night of riots, Al Jazeera English
  38. ↑ Israeli City Divided by Sectarian Violence, New York Times, October 12, 2008
  39. ↑ Police arrest Acre Yom Kippur driver, Jpost, October 12, 2008
  40. ↑ http://forward.com/articles/168576/anti-african-riots-erupt-over-tel-aviv-rape/
  41. ↑ http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/tel-aviv-race-riots-shock-israel/story-e6frg6so-1226366536966
  42. ↑ http://www.jpost.com/National-News/South-Tel-Aviv-simmers-as-racial-tensions-linger
  43. ↑ http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/24/deport-the-sudanese-violent-israeli-race-riots-draw-condemnation-empathy/
  44. ↑ Anti-Police Protest in Israel Turns Violent The New York Times, 3 May 2015
  45. ↑ Roma riots stir unease in Bulgaria
  46. ↑ 'Race killing' sparks French riot
  47. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dresden-riots-protesters-in-germany-attack-refugee-buses-shouting-foreigners-out-10467287.html
  48. ↑ Milan police in Chinatown clash
  49. ↑ Milan Chinese riot over traffic fine
  50. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  51. ↑ Bari police and african immigrants clash
  52. ↑ video Bari African riots
  53. ↑ Tunisians riots
  54. ↑ Refugees refuse to reside in provided buildings
  55. ↑ Ethnic Riots after Dutchman is Killed by Police
  56. ↑ Moroccan-Dutch youth riot in Amsterdam following fatal incident
  57. ↑ [2]
  58. ↑ Focus on Mesketian Turks
  59. ↑ Spain struggles with race riots
  60. ↑ Spanish youth clash with immigrant gangs
  61. ↑ African immigrants riot in Spain, BBC NEWS
  62. ↑ [3]
  63. ↑ Race clashes hit Windsor
  64. ↑ "The Pacific Proxy: China vs Taiwan", Graeme Dobell, ABC Radio Australia, February 7, 2007
  65. ↑ "Chinese stores looted in Tonga riots", People's Daily, November 17, 2006

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