Country | Riot | Notes | References |
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Burundi | 1972 Ikiza | | |
1993 ethnic violence in Burundi | | |
Côte d'Ivoire | 2004 French–Ivorian clashes | | [1] [2] |
Egypt | 1945 Anti-Jewish riots in Egypt | | |
Ghana | see: Ethnic conflict in Ghana |
Kenya(see: Ethnic conflicts in Kenya) | Somali–Kenyan conflict | | |
2012 Baragoi clashes | | |
2012–13 Tana River District clashes | | |
Lesotho | 2007 Anti-Chinese riot in Maseru | | [3] |
Libya | 1945 Anti-Jewish riots in Tripolitania | | |
1948 Anti-Jewish riots in Tripolitania | | |
Mauritania | 1989 race riots in Mauritania | Riots took place during Mauritania–Senegal Border War | [4] |
Mauritius | 1906 Pagoda riots | | |
1911 Curepipe riots | | |
1937 Uba riots | | |
1943 Belle Vue Harel Massacre | | |
1965 Mauritius race riots | | |
1968 Mauritian riots | | |
1999 Mauritian riots | | |
1999 L'Amicale riots | | |
Nigeria | 1966 anti-Igbo pogrom | | |
Rhodesia | 1925 Kananga riot | | |
South Africa | 1949 Anti-Indian riots in Durban | These riots, taking place between 13–14 January 1949, were a pogrom in which Indians were targeted, predominantly by Zulus. In total 142 Asians died and another 1,087 people were injured; the riot resulted in the massacre of mostly poor Indians. It also led to the destruction of 58 shops, 247 dwellings, and one factory. | [5] |
1976 Soweto uprising | | |
1985 Anti-Indian riot in Durban | This riot came as Zulu youth spilled into Asian suburbs of Durban (including Inanda) during the night. While this event was less severe in its intensity and of much shorter duration than the 1949 riots, this riot also saw hundreds of South-African Indians families fleeing their neighbourhoods in order to escape Zulu rioters who looted and torched their homes on the night of 7 August 1985. | [6] [7] [8] |
2007 Anti-Somali riot in Port Elizabeth | | [9] |
2020 riot in Senekal | Protests in response to the killing of Brendin Horner turned violent. Rioters, largely Boers, stormed the courthouse where the two perpetrators were being held. Gunfire was exchanged, and a police van outside was turned over and set alight. | [10] |
Tanzania | 1964 Zanzibar Revolution | Took place on 12 January 1964. | [11] [12] | |
Country | Riot | Notes | References |
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Brazil | 1823 Anti-Portuguese riots in Rio de Janeiro | | [13] |
1831 Anti-Portuguese riots in Salvador | | |
Canada | 1784 Shelburne riots in Nova Scotia | These riots took place in July 1784 by landless white Loyalist veterans of the American War of Independence against Black Loyalists and government officials in the Nova Scotian town of Shelburne, and the nearby village of Birchtown.They are considered the first race riots in Canada, and are one of the earliest recorded race riots in North America. | [14] |
1835–45 Shiners' War | | |
Riot over a black person taking up a military uniform in 1852 in St. Catharines, Ontario. | | |
Riot over a black man marrying a white woman in 1860 in Chatham, Ontario. | | |
Riot over a blacks sitting in the main theatre section in 1860 in Victoria, British Columbia. | | |
1875 Jubilee riots in Toronto | | |
Anti-Chinese riot in 1887 due to both xenophobia and economic competition, (Vancouver, British Columbia) | | |
Anti-Chinese riot in 1892 due to a small-pox outbreak, (Calgary, Alberta) | | |
Anti-Chinese riot in 1907 due to an altercation between a Chinese employee and a white customer, (Lethbridge, Alberta) | | |
1907 Anti-Oriental riots in Vancouver | As part of the larger anti-Asian Pacific Coast race riots of 1907, along the west coast of Canada and the US. | | |
Anti-German riots in reaction to World War I in 1916, (Calgary, Alberta) | | |
1918 Toronto anti-Greek riot | | |
Anti-Chinese riot in 1919, (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | | |
Anti-immigrant riot in 1919, (Winnipeg, Manitoba) | | |
1933 Christie Pits riot in Toronto | | |
Anti-black riot in 1940, (Calgary, Alberta) | | |
1969 Sir George Williams affair | | |
Riot by blacks against white owned businesses in response to perceived discrimination against them in 1991, (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | | |
Yonge Street Riot-rioting by black protestors in response to the Rodney King verdict and another victim of police brutality that occurred shortly before in 1992, (Toronto, Ontario) | | |
1999 Burnt Church Crisis | | |
2020 Mi'kmaq lobster dispute | | |
Mexico | 1911 Torreón massacre | | |
Peru | 1880s anti-Chinese riots | Peruvians held the Chinese as responsible for Chile's invasion during the War of the Pacific, due to Chinese support for Chile throughout the war. This would stem a sense of sinophobia among Peruvians, the first of its kind in Latin America. In the Cañete region, Chinese immigrants were massacred by Afro-Peruvian peasants, led by women during the War of the Pacific. Following the war, Chinese were further targeted and murdered by native Peruvians. In the central Sierra, armed indigenous peasants sacked and occupied the haciendas of landed elite Criollo 'collaborationists', a majority of whom were of ethnic-Chinese descent. In Lima, Indigenous and mestizo Peruvians murdered Chinese shopkeepers. In response, Chinese coolies revolted, some even joining the Chilean Army. It was not until 1890s that anti-Chinese pogroms ended in Peru.
| [15] [16] [17] [18] |
1880s Indigenous uprising against White Peruvians | | [19] | |
Country | Riot | Notes | References |
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Azerbaijan (incl. Soviet Azerbaijan) | 1988 Sumgait pogrom | Anti-Armenian pogrom riots in Azerbaijan SSR during February 1988 | |
1988 Kirovabad pogrom | Anti-Armenian pogrom | |
1990 Baku pogrom | Anti-Armenian pogrom | |
Bahrain | 1947 Manama riots | | |
Bangladesh (incl. East Pakistan) | 1946 Noakhali riots | | |
1950 Barisal riots | | |
1964 East-Pakistan riots | | |
1990 Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence | | |
2012 Hathazari violence | | |
2012 Ramu violence | | |
2013 Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence | | |
2014 Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence | | |
Myanmar(see also: Rohingya conflict) | 1930 Rangoon riots | Anti-Indian riots | |
1997 Mandalay riots | Anti-Muslim riots | |
2001 Taungoo riots | Anti-Muslim riots | |
2012 Rakhine State riots | | |
2013 Myanmar anti-Muslim riots | | |
2017 Tula Toli massacre | | |
China | 1988 Nanjing anti-African protests | | |
1997 Ghulja incident | | [44] |
2002 Yizhou riots | | |
2008 Tibetan unrest | | |
2008 Uyghur unrest | | |
2009 Shaoguan incident | | |
July 2009 Ürümqi riots | | |
India (incl. British Raj)(see also: Violence against Muslims in India) | 1882 Salem riots | | |
1895 Kalugumalai riots | | |
1899 Sivakasi riots | | |
1918 Kamuthi looting | | |
1984 anti-Sikh riots | Also includes the Hondh-Chillar massacre | |
1991 anti-Tamil violence in Karnataka | | |
1997–98 Kuki–Paite ethnic clash | | |
2007 Christmas violence in Kandhamal | | |
2008 Kandhamal violence | | |
2012 Assam riots | | |
2014 Saharanpur riots | | |
2016 Dhulagarh riots | | |
Ethnic conflict in Nagaland | | |
2023 Manipur violence | Ethnic tensions between the Meitei and the Kuki people | |
Indonesia (incl. Dutch East Indies) | 1740 Batavia massacre | Pogrom in which Dutch East Indies soldiers and natives killed ethnic Chinese residents of Batavia. | |
1918 Kudus riot | Anti-Chinese riot in Kudus | |
1965 riots in Sumatra and Kalimantan | Anti-Chinese riots | [45] |
1998 Jakarta riots | Anti-Chinese riots | [46] |
1999 Sambas riots | | |
2001 Sampit conflict | | |
Israel(excl. Mandatory Palestine, see below) | 1947 Jerusalem riots | | |
1936 Tulkarm shooting retaliation in Tel Aviv | | |
1959 Wadi Salib riots | | |
1988–92 First Intifada | | |
2008 riots in Acre | 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. | [47] [48] [49] |
2012 race riots in Tel Aviv | Race riots by Jewish Israelis against black-African immigrants took place in May 2012 after the rape of an elderly woman and an underage Israeli girl by 3 Eritrean men. | [50] [51] [52] [53] |
2015 riots in Tel Aviv | 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. | [54] |
Kazakhstan(see: Ethnic conflicts in Kazakhstan) | 1951 anti-Chechen pogrom in Eastern Kazakhstan | | |
Fergana pogrom | | |
2020 Dungan–Kazakh ethnic clashes | | |
Kyrgyzstan (incl. Kyrgyz SSR) | 1990 Osh riots | An ethnic conflict between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks that took place in June 1990 in the Kyrgyz SSR | |
2010 South Kyrgyzstan ethnic clashes | | |
Malaysia | 1969 May 13 incident | Sectarian violence in Kuala Lumpur | |
2001 Kampung Medan riots | | |
Pakistan | see: Sectarian violence in Pakistan |
Palestine (British Mandate)(see also: Timeline of intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine) | 1920 Nebi Musa riots | Anti-Jewish riots by Arabs in Jerusalem | |
1921 Jaffa riots | Anti-Jewish riots by Arabs in Jaffa | |
1929 Palestine riots | Anti-Jewish riots by Arabs in Hebron, Safed, Jerusalem, and Jaffa | |
1933 Palestine riots | Anti-Jewish riots due to Jewish immigration | |
1938 Tiberias massacre | | |
1947 Jerusalem riots | Anti-Jewish riots by Arabs in Jerusalem | |
Philippines | see: Ethnic issues in the Philippines |
Singapore | 1950 Maria Hertogh riots | | |
1964 race riots in Singapore | | |
1969 race riots of Singapore | | |
2013 Little India riot | | |
Sri Lanka (incl. British Ceylon) (see also: List of riots in Sri Lanka)
| 1915 Sinhalese-Muslim riots | Ethnic conflict between Sinhalese Buddhists and Sri Lankan Moors | |
1956 anti-Tamil pogrom | Anti-Tamil riots by Sinhalese mobs | |
1958 anti-Tamil pogrom | Anti-Tamil riots by Sinhalese mobs | |
1977 anti-Tamil pogrom | Anti-Tamil riots by Sinhalese mobs | |
1981 anti-Tamil pogrom | Anti-Tamil riots by Sinhalese mobs | |
Black July riots of 1983 | Anti-Tamil riots by Sinhalese mobs. Largely believed to be the main cause of the Sri Lankan Civil War. | |
1987 Trincomalee riots | Anti-Sinhalese riots by Tamil mobs in Trincomalee | |
Kalutara prison riots | Murder of 3 Tamil political prisoners by Sinhalese prisoners | |
2000 Bindunuwewe riots | Murder of 26 Tamil political prisoners by Sinhalese mobs | |
Mawanella riots | Ethnic conflict between Sinhalese and Muslims that took place in April 2001 | |
2014 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka | Anti-Muslim riots by Sinhalese mobs | |
2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka | Anti-Muslim riots by Sinhalese mobs | |
2019 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka | Anti-Muslim riots by Sinhalese mobs | |
Syria | 1947 anti-Jewish riots in Aleppo | | |
Uzbekistan (incl. Uzbek SSR) | 1989 Fergana massacre | After bloody riots against the Meskhetian Turks in Central Asia's Fergana Valley, nearly 90,000 Meskhetian Turks left Uzbekistan | [55] |
Tajikistan (incl. Tajik SSR) | 1990 Dushanbe riots | anti-Armenian unrest in Dushanbe, the capital of the Tajik SSR, from February 12–14, 1990. | | |
Country | Riot | Notes | References |
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Belgium | 1941 Antwerp Pogrom | | |
2006 Brussels riots | | |
Bulgaria | 2007 anti-Romani riots in Sofia | | [56] |
Banya Bashi mosque clashes | | |
2019 anti-Romani riots in Gabrovo | A mob of approximately 1000 Bulgarians rioted for four nights following the assault of a Bulgarian shop worker by Romani youths. Property destruction of the Romani area ensued. | [57] |
Denmark | 1873 St. Croix labor riot | St. Croix agricultural labor rioted against landlords and labor laws. | |
1820–1822 Jewish skirmishes | Riots in various Danish and German cities and towns. | |
France | 2005 Perpignan riots | Riots in Perpignan between Maghrebi and Romani communities after a man of Maghrebi descent was shot dead. | [58] |
2009 riots in Avignon | Riots in September 2009 between Turkish and Moroccan youths (one youth of African descent was dead) | |
2015 Corsican protests | Conflict between locals and immigrants in December 2015 in Ajaccio. | |
2020 Dijon riots | These riots between members of the Chechen diaspora and the resident Arab community occurred due to an assault on a Chechen teenager by Arab drug dealers. | [59] |
Germany | 1819 Hep-Hep riots | | |
1938 Kristallnacht | Anti-Jewish riots that would precipitate the Holocaust | |
Neo-Nazi marches in Dresden | These marches have sparked many riots as recently as August 2015.[60] | |
1991 Hoyerswerda riots | | |
1992 Rostock-Lichtenhagen riots | | |
Greece | 1990 Komotini events | | |
Kosovo | 2000 riots in Kosovo | | |
2004 pogrom in Kosovo | | |
Italy | 2007 Chinese riot in Milan | | [61] [62] |
2010 African-immigrant riots in Rosarno | | [63] |
2011 African-immigrant riots in Bari | | [64] [65] |
2011 African-immigrant riots in Lampedusa | Riots involving mostly Tunisians | [66] |
2015 riots in Sassari | Riots as result of refugees refusing to reside in provided buildings | [67] |
2016 anti-Arab riots in Sesto Fiorentino | Chinese-Italian riots against Arab immigrants and refugees | [68] [69] [70] |
2018 Italian-Senegalese riots in Florence | Senegal community riot the city of Florence | [71] |
North Macedonia | 2001 insurgency in Macedonia | | |
2012 Republic of Macedonia inter-ethnic violence | | |
2017 storming of Macedonian Parliament | | |
Norway | 2008–2009 Oslo riots | Anti-Jewish riots in the city of Oslo, involving mostly muslim immigrants and far-left activists | |
Netherlands | 1972 Afrikaanderwijk riots | | |
1976 Schiedam riots | | |
Poland | 1936 Przytyk pogrom | Anti-Jewish riots in Przytyk, on March 9, 1936 | |
1945 Kraków pogrom | Anti-Jewish riots that occurred on August 11, 1945, in the city of Kraków | |
1946 Kielce pogrom | An outbreak of violence against the Jewish community of Kielce, Poland on July 4, 1946 | |
1991 Mława pogrom | A series of violent incidents in June 1991, when a crowd attacked Roma residents of the Polish town of Mława | |
2017 Ełk riots | During the New Year's Eve, a Polish man was stabbed to death by a Tunisian man – incident sparked the riots. | |
Romania | 1990 ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș | | |
1993 Hădăreni riots | | |
Russia(see also: Ethnic conflicts in the Soviet Union) | Anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire | | |
2006 ethnic tensions in Kondopoga | Anti-immigrant riots in Kondopoga, Karelia | |
2010 Manezhnaya Square riot trials | Anti-immigrant riots on Moscow's Manezhnaya Square following the murder of Egor Sviridov | |
2013 Biryulyovo riots | Anti-immigrant riots in Biryulyovo District, Moscow | |
Spain | 2000 race riot in Almería | | [72] |
2007 riots in Madrid | | [73] |
2008 immigrant riots in Roquetas de Mar | Riot between Senegalese and Roma (Gypsy) families | [74] |
2015 African riot in Salou | | [75] |
Sweden | 2010 Rinkeby riots | | |
2013 December Stockholm riots | | |
2013 May Stockholm riots | | |
2016 riots in Sweden | | |
2017 Rinkeby riots | | |
2020 Sweden riots | | |
Turkey | 1934 Thrace pogroms | Anti-Jewish pogrom in Eastern Thrace | |
1955 Istanbul pogroms | | |
1969 Istanbul riots | | |
Ukraine | 1821 Odessa pogrom | | |
1881 Kiev pogrom | | |
1905 Odessa pogrom | | |
1905 Chernihiv pogrom | | |
1905 Kiev pogrom | | |
1914 Lwów pogrom | | |
1918 Lwów pogrom | | |
1919 Kiev pogroms | | |
1941 Lviv pogroms | | |
2014 Odesa clashes | Part of the larger pro-Russian unrest, these riots culminated in the 2 May city clashes, pro-Ukrainian rioters burned the House of Trade Unions where pro-Russian rioters barricaded themselves. | [76] |
2016 anti-Romani riot in Odesa | Local villagers attack Romani settlement in Odesa after the body of a 9 year old girl was discovered. | [77] |
United Kingdom | 1911 Siege of Sidney Street | | |
1911 South Wales anti-Jewish riots | | |
1919 riot in South Shields | February 1919 | |
1919 South Wales race riots | June 1919 | |
1919 riot in Liverpool | June 1919 | |
1919 riot in Glasgow | June 1919 | |
1919 riots in London | In Stepney in April; on St Anne Street in May; and on Cable Street and Poplar in June | |
1921 Bloody Sunday | | |
1936 Battle of Cable Street | | |
1947 anti-Jewish riots in Birkenhead | | |
1948 riot in Liverpool | August 1948 | |
1958 riot in Nottingham | August 1958 | |
1958 Notting Hill race riots | | |
1969 Northern Ireland riots | | |
1975 Chapeltown riot | | |
1976 Notting Hill race riots | | |
1979 Southall race riot | London, 23 April 1979 | |
1980 St. Pauls riot | In Bristol | |
1981 Brixton riot | London, April 1981 | |
1981 Toxteth riots | Liverpool, July 1981 | |
1981 Handsworth riots | Birmingham July 1981 | |
1981 Chapeltown Caribbean riot | | |
1981 Moss Side riot | | |
1985 Peckham riot | | |
1985 Handsworth riots | Birmingham July 1985 | |
1985 Brixton riot | London, September 1985 | |
1985 Broadwater Farm riot | London, October 1985 | |
1987 Chapeltown riot | | |
1989 Dewsbury riot | | |
1991 Meadow Well riots | | |
1995 Manningham riot | Bradford, June 1995 | |
1997 Northern Ireland riots | | |
2001 Oldham riots | Oldham, May 2001 | |
2001 riots in Burnley | Burnley, June 2001 | |
2001 Bradford riots | Bradford, July 2001 | |
2001 riots in Stoke-on-Trent | | |
2001 Holy Cross dispute | | |
July 2001 Belfast riots | | |
November 2001 Belfast riots | | |
2005 Belfast riots | | |
2005 Birmingham riots | | |
2010 Northern Ireland riots | | |
2011 Northern Ireland riots | | |
2011 London riots | | |
2012 North Belfast riots | | |
Belfast City Hall flag protests | | |
2013 Belfast riots | | |
2018 Derry riots | | |
2021 Northern Ireland riots | Riots by Loyalist youths due to post-Brexit trading arrangements and the refusal of the PSNI to prosecute a Sinn Fein member's attendance of an illegal funeral. Eventually escalated when Loyalists threw petrol bombs into a nationalist area. | [78] |
2022 Leicester unrest | Riots between Muslims and Hindus in Leicester. | |
2024 United Kingdom riots | Riots against Muslims throughout the UK. |
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