Very Interesting, Also Kind of Totally Freaky When You Think About It

The UN has confirmed, based on analysis of eye-witness accounts, that the origins of the conflict were with five coordinated attacks (see here). So this did NOT start out as an ethnic dispute, though, as I hypothesized earlier, pre-existing tension is certainly contributing to the continuation of the crisis. But yes, paranoid and crazy conspiracy theory-like as it seems, someone or some groups thought this through and WANTED THIS TO HAPPEN. No points going to humanity for this one.

There are still loads of competing guesses as to who is responsible and why, and the confirmation of the provacateur theory does not absolve anyone involved in killing, burning, looting, etc. from blame, but I do hope that this at least cuts down on the overly-simplistic American MSM narratives of "Oh! Look at those savages with their ancient ethnic hatreds that are just too deep to ever be understood or overcome!" or, alternatively, "Nothing matters but money!"