  News reports in media contain records of a wide range of socio-economic and
political events in time. Using a publicly available, large digital database of
news records, and aggregating them over time, we study the network of ethnic
conflicts and human rights violations. Complex network analyses of the events
and the involved actors provide important insights on the engaging actors,
groups, establishments and sometimes nations, pointing at their long range
effect over space and time. We find power law decays in distributions of actor
mentions, co-actor mentions and degrees and dominance of influential actors and
groups. Most influential actors or groups form a giant connected component
which grows in time, and is expected to encompass all actors globally in the
long run. We demonstrate how targeted removal of actors may help stop spreading
unruly events. We study the cause-effect relation between types of events, and
our quantitative analysis confirm that ethnic conflicts lead to human rights
violations, while it does not support the converse.
