Ethnic Cleansing

Definition: Ethnic Cleansing

1. The mass explusion and killing of one ethic or religious group in an area by another ethnic or religious group in that area.

Commercial Usage: Ethnic Cleansing

Domain	Title
Books	A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, 1944-1950 (reference) Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe (reference) The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People: An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America (reference) Erasing History: Ethnic Cleansing (reference) Vengeance of the Swallows: Memoir of a Polish Family's Ordeal Under Soviet Aggression, Ukrainian Ethnic Cleansing and Nazi Enslavement, and Their Emigration to America (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Non-Fiction Usage: Ethnic Cleansing

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Hungary	The camps have been operating since the early 1990's, largely as a result of the influx of refugees fleeing the various conflicts and incidents of ethnic cleansing to the south. (references)
Human Rights	Iraq	The Government continues its Arabization campaign of ethnic cleansing designed to harass and expel ethnic Kurds and Turkmen from government-controlled areas. (references)
	Yugoslavia	Kosovo's investigative, judicial, and penal systems, in addition to ICTY, continued to work to ensure that perpetrators of the ethnic cleansing and violence before, during, and after the 1999 war were identified and punished; they achieved limited success. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ethnic Cleansing

Modern Translations: Ethnic Cleansing

Language		Translations for "ethnic cleansing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏التطهير العرقى. (various references)

Danish		etnisk udrensning. (various references)

Dutch		etnische zuivering. (various references)

French		purification ethnique, nettoyage ethnique, épuration ethnique. (various references)

German		ethnische Säuberung (ethnical cleansing), ethnische Reinigung, ethnische Flurbereinigung. (various references)

Greek		εθνικές εκκαθαρίσεις. (various references)

Italian		purificazione etnica, pulizia etnica. (various references)

Pig Latin		ethnicay eansingclay

Portuguese		purificaç??ã?o étnica, limpeza étnica. (various references)

Spanish		purificación étnica, limpieza étnica, depuración étnica. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Ethnic Cleansing

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