Ethnic Cleansing Definition

noun
The systematic attempt to eliminate an ethnic group from a country or region as by forced expulsion or mass execution.
Webster's New World

The mass extermination or expulsion of people belonging to one ethnic or religious group by those of another.

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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.

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Ethnic Cleansing Sentence Examples

  • This war ended, as far as such wars ever end, with a massive ethnic cleansing.

  • The Burmese military has been conducting ethnic cleansing against the Karen and other minorities in Burma.

  • I would also encourage students to reflect on what this means for them in light of the ongoing ethnic cleansing in Darfur .

  • The attempt to try to homogenize states must involve complicity in ethnic cleansing.

  • He also said his country would keep letting in all those fleeing what the West calls ethnic cleansing in the Serb region of Kosovo.

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