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Ethnic Cleansing Definition

ethnic cleansing

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English

Wikipedia has an article on: Ethnic cleansing

Etymology

From ethnic + cleansing. Perhaps compare Serbo-Croatian etničko čišćenje, though this is probably attested later. Originally used of (and still chiefly associated with) the wars in former Yugoslavia during the 1990s.

Noun

ethnic cleansing (uncountable)

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

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