ethnic cleansing
Ethnic cleansing is the deliberate and organized removal or extermination of an ethnic or religious group from a specific geographic region, with the intention to establish homogeneity in terms of ethnicity or religious affiliation.
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Related Concepts (23)
- apartheid
- crimes against humanity
- dispossession
- ethnic segregation
- ethno-religious conflict
- ethnocide
- expulsion from germany
- extermination campaigns
- forced assimilation
- forced displacement
- genocide
- hate crimes
- historical atrocities
- human rights violations
- massacres
- persecution
- pogroms
- population transfer
- racial purging
- religious persecution
- sectarian violence
- systematic violence
- war crimes