violence associates modern ethnic conflicts with ancient (or even mythical) conflicts. the ethnic cleansing which was perpetrated by Serbs in the 1990s was seen as revenge for the rule of the Croatian Ustashe, and the massacres of Bosnian Muslims were inflamed by the deeply rooted hatred of the Ottoman Empire Examples Ethnic cleansing and genocide qualify as "ethnic violence" (of the most extreme sorts), because by definition, the victims of a genocide are usually killed based on their membership in a particular ethnic group. Genocides in history List of ethnic cleansing campaigns List of genocides by death toll Circassian genocide Herero and Namaqua genocide Armenian genocide Assyrian genocide Bihari genocide Great Famine of Mount Lebanon Greek genocide Holodomor Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia The Holocaust Romani Holocaust Bengali genocide Cambodian genocide East Timor genocide Kurdish genocide Bosnian genocide Rwandan genocide Darfur genocide Rohingya genocide Uyghur genocide Amhara genocide Persecution of Shias by the Islamic State Genocide of Yazidis by the Islamic State Chechen genocide Native American genocide in California Other examples of ethnic violence include: Antisemitic pogroms in European history Foiba massacres in Dalmatia Muhajir genocides Ethnic violence in Konso in Ethiopia since 1994 Ethnic violence against Amaro Koore in Ethiopia since 1994 War crime against the Afar people in Ethiopia from 2021 to 2022 Oromo-Somali clashes in Ethiopia in 2017 Ethnic violence in South Sudan Sudanese nomadic conflicts Race riots and racial supremacist violence in the United States The Order, United States Lynching in the United States Ku Klux Klan, United States Black Legion (political movement) Hammerskins, International Death Angels, United States Don Black (nationalist) and Operation Red Dog Crown Heights riot, United States Race riots in the United Kingdom Oldham Riots Bradford Riots Combat 18, United Kingdom The history of Native Americans in the United States; American Indian Wars, Trail of Tears Cronulla Race Riots in Sydney, 2005 Ethnic conflicts in the Russian federation and the Caucasus The Dashnaks, EOKA and Czarist Russia The Russo-Circassian War The 2006 Moscow market bombing, Russia Riots in Kondopoga, Karelia, Russia in 2006 Other secessionist conflicts The Yugoslav Wars and the history of ethnic conflicts in the Balkans Serb Paramilitary groups i.e. Arkan's White tigers and many more The Croatian Ustaše which was led by Ante Pavelić The Kurdish–Turkish conflict The Azanian People's Liberation Army, South Africa Mouvement de Libération Nationale du Québec Numerous individual "hate crime" incidents,