Ethnic cleansing
Ethnic cleansing (genocide) | |
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Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making the society ethnically homogeneous. Along with direct removal such as 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.
Examples
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"The Holocaust" | In its capitalized form "The Holocaust" refers in the Western world to the treatment of the Jewish populations of Germany and German occupied territories during WW2 (1939-45). Its use in this format stems from about the mid-1960's (i.e. more than 20 years after the events it claims to define). It does not appear in histories or documents before that time. |
Israel/Judaization of Jerusalem | Slow-motion but determined ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem |
Nakba Day | Palestinian commemoration of the 1948 ethnic cleansing |
Related Document
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Document:A year late, the Guardian finally permits us to use the term 'genocide' | blog post | 8 November 2024 | Jonathan Cook | In running an opinion piece that suggests it may now be acceptable to use the term genocide about Gaza, The Guardian has admitted it has been, even according to Omer Bartov – its own resident genocide expert – complicit in obscuring that genocide for a half a year. |
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