Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureş (also called Black March) refer to violent incidents between the Romanian and Hungarian ethnic groups in Transylvania, Romania in the early nineties. These clashes were the bloodiest inter-ethnic incidents of the post-communist era in Transylvania. Târgu Mureş (Hungarian: Marosvásárhely) is a Romanian town, with an ethnically mixed population that was almost equally distributed between Romanians and Hungarians after the fall of the communist regime in December 1989. It has been an important cultural and political center for the Hungarian minority in Transylvania.In March 1990, short-lived, but violent clashes occurred there between the two ethnic groups in the town, involving ethnic Romanians from neighboring villages. These clashes left six people dead and three hundred injured. The riots were broadcast nationally on Romanian television, and were covered by media around the world.It is still widely disputed what exactly triggered the riots. The nature of the involvement of the media and the Romanian government are also questioned."@en }
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- Ethnic_clashes_of_Târgu_Mureș abstract "The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureş (also called Black March) refer to violent incidents between the Romanian and Hungarian ethnic groups in Transylvania, Romania in the early nineties. These clashes were the bloodiest inter-ethnic incidents of the post-communist era in Transylvania. Târgu Mureş (Hungarian: Marosvásárhely) is a Romanian town, with an ethnically mixed population that was almost equally distributed between Romanians and Hungarians after the fall of the communist regime in December 1989. It has been an important cultural and political center for the Hungarian minority in Transylvania.In March 1990, short-lived, but violent clashes occurred there between the two ethnic groups in the town, involving ethnic Romanians from neighboring villages. These clashes left six people dead and three hundred injured. The riots were broadcast nationally on Romanian television, and were covered by media around the world.It is still widely disputed what exactly triggered the riots. The nature of the involvement of the media and the Romanian government are also questioned.".