2015 Event Myanmar President Thein Sein implements a population control law requiring women to wait three years between children; critics believe the law can be used to oppress women as well as minority religion and ethnic populations in the country 2014 Event President Obama awards 24 Medals of Honor to veterans originally overlooked due to ethnic or racial bias 2010 Event Roza Otunbayeva, interim leader of Kyrgyzstan, estimates the death toll from the country's worst ethnic battle in decades could be as many as 2,000 people 2010 Event Ethnic clashes in Kyrgyzstan's city of Osh and Jalal-Abad left more than 100 people dead and over 1,400 injured after three days of four days of fighting 2009 Event An ethnic conflict over fishing rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills 100 people, displaces 50,000 2009 Event Six people sentenced to death over ethnic rioting in July that killed almost 200 in the region of Xinjiang 1994 Death Marlon Riggs, U.S. writer/director/producer (Ethnic notions), dies at 37 1991 Event Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans 1975 Event Poland and West germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans
