When I prayed, the Lord said, "Look at Beirut Somalia and Bosnia if you want to see what the world will be like". In each of these situations, terrible destruction has been caused by inter-tribal conflict. A good example of what will take place is the war that took place in Rwanda. This country, which was seen as one of the more beautiful, peaceful, and plentiful in Africa was torn apart and destroyed by inter-tribal war.
Other examples are Beirut, Somalia, Bosnia, and Syria. More recently we have seen the same forces at work in Fiji, East Timor, Indonesia and the Solomon Islands. Rising ethnic conflicts are becoming endemic in Southeast Asia. They first struck Southeast Asian island states, such as Indonesia and the Philippines, where religious and ideological guerrilla wars also have an ethnic component. This ethnic conflict epidemic has now spread to Indochina. Ethnic unrest has become violent in central Vietnam. Laos and Myanmar already have ethnic-based insurgencies.
Multi-ethnic states of Southeast Asia are poised to struggle with new ethnic conflicts that will hurt their economies and possibly pose a danger to their territorial integrity.
Ethnic disputes have emerged in many parts of Africa. The worst is in Libya.
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