Ethnic-cleansing definition
An example of ethnic cleansing is the expulsion of 450,000 Palestinians from Kuwait in 1991.
Origin of ethnic-cleansing
- From ethnic + cleansing. Perhaps compare Serbo-Croatian etničko čišćenje, though this is probably attested later. Originally used of (still chiefly associated with) the wars in former Yugoslavia during the 1990s.
From Wiktionary