Definitions for ethnic cleansing
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1. ethnic cleansingnoun

   the mass expulsion and killing of one ethnic or religious group in an area by another ethnic or religious group in that area

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1. ethnic cleansingnoun

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

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

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1. Ethnic cleansing

   Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, and religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making a region ethnically homogeneous. Along with direct removal, extermination, deportation or population transfer, it also includes indirect methods aimed at forced migration by coercing the victim group to flee and preventing its return, such as murder, rape, and property destruction. It constitutes a crime against humanity and may also fall under the Genocide Convention, even as ethnic cleansing has no legal definition under international criminal law.Many instances of ethnic cleansing have occurred throughout history; the term was first used by the perpetrators as a euphemism during the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s. Since then, the term has gained widespread acceptance due to journalism and the media's heightened use of the term in its generic meaning.

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1. ethnic cleansing

   Ethnic cleansing is the systematic and intentional act of forcibly removing, killing, or eradicating a particular ethnic, racial, or religious group from a specific geographic area with the intention of creating an area solely inhabited by a different ethnic, racial, or religious group. These acts can include but are not limited to murder, forced migration, torture, rape, and destruction of cultural or religious property and symbols.

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1. Ethnic cleansing

   Ethnic cleansing is the process or policy of eliminating unwanted ethnic or religious groups by deportation, forcible displacement, mass murder, or by threats of such acts, with the intent of creating a territory inhabited by people of a homogeneous or pure ethnicity, religion, culture, and history. Ethnic cleansing usually involves attempts to remove physical and cultural evidence of the targeted group in the territory through the destruction of homes, social centers, farms, and infrastructure, and by the desecration of monuments, cemeteries, and places of worship. The crimes committed during an ethnic cleansing is similar to that of genocide, but while genocide includes complete extermination of the target group as the stated goal, ethnic cleansing may involve murder only to the point of mobilizing the target group out of the territory. Hence there may be varied degrees of mass murder in an ethnic cleansing, often subsiding when the target group appears to be leaving the desired territory, while during genocide the mass murder is ubiquitous and constant throughout the process, continuing even while the target group tries to flee. The term ethnic cleansing gained widespread acceptance by the 1990s in academic discourse; despite originally being used by the perpetrators during the Yugoslav Wars, scholars now commonly use it to refer to "the systematic and violent removal of undesired ethnic groups from a given territory."

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of ethnic cleansing in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of ethnic cleansing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of ethnic cleansing in a Sentence

1. Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus:

   The majority of Tel Rifaat is Arab and Turkmen, and if the PYD says it will capitalize on (its control), then this means ethnic cleansing, and this will not benefit Syria.

2. Marsha Levine Levine:

   Benjamin Netanyahu wants ethnic cleansing, the Jews have become the Nazis…It’s really fascinating that the JC and the people behind it claim they speak for Jews. You don’t speak for me. Never once was I quoted correctly in the past, not even about the bloody horses. I want justice for Palestine.

3. United States:

   I don't remember when was the last time I heard my parents' voice, i ask the United States government, United Nations and all other foreign governments to take immediate action to stop this brutal attempted ethnic cleansing.

4. Suu Kyi:

   I think there is a lot of hostility there -- it is Muslims killing Muslims as well, if they think they are cooperating with the authorities, it is not just a matter of ethnic cleansing, as you put it -- it is a matter of people on different sides of the divide, and this divide we are trying to close up.

5. State John Sullivan:

   We condemn the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya in Burma and the atrocities committed against them.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ethnic_Cleansing
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_Cleansing
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5. ^ Wikidata
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