"Ethnic cleansing" refers to the deliberate and forceful removal or extermination of a certain ethnic or racial group from a particular area, typically carried out by another dominant group. It involves acts of violence, persecution, and displacement aimed at removing the targeted group from an area with the intention of establishing ethnic or racial homogeneity.
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One good reason for this is that forced relocation of people based on ethnic background or religion is literally the definition
of ethnic cleansing.
When section 13 proponents argue that hate speech leads to actual acts of discrimination and in extreme
cases ethnic cleansing or genocide they have peoples attention.
In short to blame Global Warming, (even it is caused by man) for starvation and death is to ignore the deliberate state policies that either destroyed their countries economies such as Zimbawe, North Korea, or the criminal actions such as the Sudanese government and its campaign of
ethnic cleansing in Darfur.
He described the crisis in Benue State
as ethnic cleansing and urged the people not to allow others to cow them, saying, «This nation belongs to our forefathers and they bequeathed it to us and we should not allow anyone to chase others away, this country belongs to all of us.
Danjuma, a former Minister of Defence, had last month, at the maiden convocation / 10th anniversary of Taraba State University, Jalingo, said there was an attempt
at ethnic cleansing in the state and, of course, some rural states in Nigeria.
Mladic was found guilty of genocide in Srebrenica, crimes against humanity
for ethnic cleansing of Bosnian towns and the siege of Sarajevo, and war crimes for the hostage taking of UN staff to stop NATO intervention.
The 16 Rohingya - 12 men, two women and two young girls - had traveled to Dhaka from Cox's Bazar, the district bordering Burma where refugee camps are overflowing with more than 620,000 Rohingya who have fled what the UN says is a campaign of
ethnic cleansing by Burma's military.
[3] Amnesty International,
Ethnic Cleansing on a Historical Scale: Islamic State's Systematic Targeting of Minorities in Northern Iraq (London: Amnesty International, 2014).
This policy may also, but not necessarily include the partial or
complete ethnic cleansing from the territory known as the Land of Israel.»
From 60 % you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions,
sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:
The film is most interesting for the way it addresses relevant issues like the need to
stop ethnic cleansing and to bring war criminals before international justice, the difference between wanting someone «gone» and wanting him «dead» and whether words can be more powerful than guns.
Ethnic cleansing became a Serbian policy for the slaughter of non-Serbs, with the objective being to construct a «Greater Serbia.»
«We all indulge in a bit of hyperbole, but I have to say to the hon. Gentleman quite seriously that to refer to «cleansing» will be deeply offensive to people who have
witnessed ethnic cleansing in other parts of the world.»
The research that went into this project is impressive, and Forgive Us serves as an eye - opening introduction to the ways in which the Church supported exploitation, marginalization, and
even ethnic cleansing throughout America's history.
But one Twitter user responded by
advocating ethnic cleansing: «Great work Diane for creating a no go zone under your watch and your black community.
ISIS is also responsible for crimes against humanity and
ethnic cleansing directed at these same groups, and in some cases against Sunni Muslims, Kurds, and other minorities.»
An endorsement of such actions raises about a million questions, the most pressing of which is: if God
ordained ethnic cleansing in the past, might God ordain it in the present or future?
In the Central African Republic, the Christian majority are brutalizing Muslims with murder and
ethnic cleansing after a Muslim uprising earlier.
These women have endured more in their lives than I can even imagine: they left everything to
flee ethnic cleansing from the junta in Burma, ended up in refugee camps marked by extreme poverty and hopelessness, and then moved their families to this new country so their children can have education and a future.
Those who defend these stories as historical realities representative of God's true desires and actions in the world typically respond to challenges to that interpretation by declaring: «God is God, and if God
orders ethnic cleansing, we have no business questioning it.»
Underlying the picturesque images is the dark history of this region of Cyprus
where ethnic cleansing and depopulation took place as recently as 1974.
Nearly 700,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar after militant attacks on Aug. 25 sparked a crackdown led by security forces in western Rakhine state that the United Nations and United States have said
constitute ethnic cleansing.
We expect just a bunch of people mostly living in a suburb in Northern California [to] safeguard U.S. elections in 2018, not
cause ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, not help Duterte kill off people he doesn't like in Philippines, not kill off media companies by mistake in Serbia, and a few more.»
Those billions pay for a program of
systematic ethnic cleansing: Arabs are being forced off their lands, and «settlements» are being erected on the ruins of their former homes.
This is sheer hypocrisy... just look at the blood - drenched history of Israel and especially of the U.S. Americans
INVENTED ethnic cleansing (remember the Native Americans?)
Yeah, because religion had nothing to do with The Crusades, World War II, the MIddle East Conflicts,
Africas Ethnic Cleansings or the current Terrorism issues the world is facing... not at all...
While the Nazi party and the
various ethnic cleansings in Armenia, the Balkans, and Africa were not really based upon atheism (thus making his argument that atheism has killed more folks than organized religion a bit shaky), ALL of the instances he mentions are bona - fide examples of almost incomprehensibly large numbers of deaths, NONE of which can be blamed, even remotely, on «organized religion.»
A few days after Tillerson's decision, a horrific campaign of
ethnic cleansing broke out in Burma, with the Rohingya community suffering mass rape, executions and displacement.
When push comes to shove, would I have supported Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal policy and the
subsequent ethnic cleansing that occurred as we made our way from sea to shining sea?
In ex-Yugoslavia and central Africa, the chaos created by neo-liberal options are unceasingly
encouraging ethnic cleansing and will find no solution, even military solutions, within the framework of global neo-liberalism.