ethnic cleansing

noun

the elimination of an unwanted ethnic group or groups from a society, as by genocide or forced emigration.

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

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 .)

First recorded in 1985–90

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.

In 1998, President Clinton bombed Serbia in response to the attempted ethnic cleansing of Kosovo without such approval.

Fancy words for what could essentially be considered ethnic cleansing, writes James Ciment, author of this new history of Liberia.

Ethnic cleansing has many faces, brutality is not its integrated feature.

This instability of boundaries led to ethnic cleansing, to numerous international congresses, to fitful wars.

It is only when ethnic cleansing is combined with self-determination that a fracturing of the solutions occurs.

Self-determination is employed to facilitate ethnic cleansing rather than to prevent it.

There are many variants of this malignant, brutal, condemnable, criminal and inefficient form of ethnic cleansing.

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