Ethnic cleansing, religious cleansing, and genocide are not random events. They do not happen because some dictator wakes up in the morning and decides to kill an ethnic minority that day. These things occasionally happened in tribal societies ... There are three general reasons for ethnic and religious cleansing.
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Any discussion of genocide or ethnic cleansing would seem to be straightforward, both in the subject matter itself and in the myriad examples one could bring to mind. As these topics are studied in greater depth, however, ... Clearly, past attempts have not been successful, and the reasons behind that remain unclear.
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Ethnic cleansing is a term that has come to be used broadly to describe all forms of ethnically-motivated violence, ranging from murder, rape, and torture to the forcible removal of populations. A 19...
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Millions lost their homes due to a process called "ethnic cleansing." ... Without possibility to get feedback on their actions from the world outside, their perpetuated hatred serves their leaders purposes by providing reasons for continuation of the war.
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On the other hand, Afghanistan and Iraq illustrate how easy it is to violate sovereignty for reasons of “national security.” Even when intervention does take place, it is very difficult to separate nations peaceably when they have experienced the ravages of ethnic cleansing.
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Incredibly, even though these gangs are fundamentally criminal enterprises interested mainly in money, gang experts inside and outside the government say that they are now engaged in a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" -- racial terror that is directed solely at African Americans.
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SPIEGEL ONLINE: Even after Iraq? Aren't there strategic reasons for getting so deeply involved in the Middle East? ... I think he now understands that ethnic cleansing is what is going to happen. You're going to have a Kurdistan. You're going to have a Sunni area that we're going to have to support forever. And you're going...
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If one were to prepare a list of the real reasons why the United States is bombing Yugoslavia, ... We have not been alone in noting that the attitude of the United States toward cases of mass repression in different parts of the world--even when the repression assumes the form of "ethnic cleansing"--is hypocritical to the core.
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How they Do Ethnic Cleansing in America ... While, for reasons having less to do with bearing universal witness against man's inhumanity toward his fellow man than with justifying one particular instance of such inhumanity, there is a Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, there are no museums there devoted to the genocide...
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But in an astonishing recent Ha'aretz interview, after summarizing his new research, Morris proceeds to argue for the necessity of ethnic cleansing in 1948. He faults David Ben-Gurion for failing to expel all Arab Israelis, and hints that it may be necessary to finish ... I understand the reasons for the hatred very well.
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