List of ethnic conflicts involving the British Empire
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This is a list of ethnic, religious, or racial conflicts that have occurred in parts of the world that were once part of the British Empire. In many cases, the British Empire was directly or indirectly involved in creating these conflicts.
- Hinduism vs. Islam (India and Pakistan, Kashmir)
- The Malays vs. Ethnic Chinese & Ethnic Indians(Malaysia)
- Native Melanesians v. Indo-Fijians (Fiji)
- The Sinhalese vs. the Tamils (Sri Lanka)
- The Burmans vs. the Karens (Myanmar)
- The Burmans vs. Mon (Myanmar)
- Partition of the Pashtun (Afghanistan and Pakistan)
- The Kurds split between Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran
- The Arabs vs. the Jews (British mandate of Palestine)
- Iraq (Sunnis, Shiites, Kurds)
- Cyprus (Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots)
- Ireland (Irish Catholics and British Protestants)
- South Africa (Boers, British Settlers, and Native Africans)
- Guyana (Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese)
- Sudan (Northern Sudanese vs. Southern Sudanese, of which the latter were classified as a separate racial group by the British)
- British North America/Canada (French Canadians vs English Canadians, native peoples vs settlers, Métis vs English Canadians, English and French Canadians vs other immigrants)
- Australia (Aborigines vs settlers)
- New Zealand (Maoris vs settlers)
- Kenya (conflict between the Kikuyu, Kalenjin, Luo, Luhya, Masai and various other ethnic groups).
- Nigeria (conflict between the Ibo, Hausa and Yoruba).