ethnic cleansing
the elimination of an unwanted ethnic group or groups from a society, as by genocide or forced emigration.
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How to use ethnic cleansing in a sentence
Abiy, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, now speaks in tones threatening ethnic cleansing — promising, for example, to “bury” his opponents, in a post censored by Facebook.
Ethiopia's Tigray Conflict Demands International Attention. Time Is Running Out | Aanu Adeoye | November 16, 2021 | TimeThe “need” for ethnic cleansing can pop up in casual conversations on politics among friends or family.
He predicts that after the March 16 referendum, the suppression of dissidents and even ethnic cleansing could become more common.
They equated Israeli policy with apartheid and insisted the country was built on ethnic cleansing.
The words "ethnic cleansing" or "sectarian cleansing" appear fairly regularly in news reports from Syria.
Between Two Catastrophes: Look at Syria, and Question Everyone's Stories about 1948 | Gershom Gorenberg | September 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
In 1998, President Clinton bombed Serbia in response to the attempted ethnic cleansing of Kosovo without such approval.
Ex-Bush Officials Love Obama’s Unilateralism on Syria | Eli Lake | August 31, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTFancy words for what could essentially be considered ethnic cleansing, writes James Ciment, author of this new history of Liberia.
This Week’s Hot Reads: ‘The Bridge of Beyond,’ ‘The Virgins,’ ‘Holy Orders’ | Sarah Stodola | August 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTethnic cleansing has many faces, brutality is not its integrated feature.
After the Rain | Sam VakninThis instability of boundaries led to ethnic cleansing, to numerous international congresses, to fitful wars.
After the Rain | Sam VakninIt is only when ethnic cleansing is combined with self-determination that a fracturing of the solutions occurs.
After the Rain | Sam VakninSelf-determination is employed to facilitate ethnic cleansing rather than to prevent it.
After the Rain | Sam VakninThere are many variants of this malignant, brutal, condemnable, criminal and inefficient form of ethnic cleansing.
After the Rain | Sam Vaknin
British Dictionary definitions for ethnic cleansing
euphemistic the violent removal by one ethnic group of other ethnic groups from the population of a particular area: used esp of the activities of Serbs against Croats and Muslims in the former Yugoslavia
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Cultural definitions for ethnic cleansing
A euphemism to describe the forceful removal or genocide of minority ethnic groups (see ethnicity) during the breakup of Yugoslavia. It was used mainly to describe the Serbs' attacks on Muslims in Bosnia and Albanians in Kosovo. (See Slobodan Milosevic and Kosovo War.)
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