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a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas", [noting that in the former Yugoslavia] " 'ethnic cleansing' has been carried out by means of murder, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention ...
Population cleansing is the deliberate removal of a population with certain undesirable characteristics, such as its ethnicity (ethnic cleansing), its religion (religious cleansing), its social group (social cleansing), its social class, its ideological or political criteria (political cleansing), etc. from certain territories.
Human rights organizations documented a wide number of human rights violations and abuses committed by Soviet and Azerbaijani forces and many of them properly characterised them as ethnic cleansing. These violations and abuses included forced deportations of civilians, unlawful killings, torture, kidnapping harassment, rape and the wanton ...
Ethnic cleansing in Kosovo may refer to numerous different events, listed in reverse chronological order: War crimes in the Kosovo War, the ethnic cleansing campaigns that took place in the Kosovo war in the 20th century; Kosovo during World War II, the deportation and killings of mostly Serbs and Montenegrins in Kosovo during WWII
The Indian removal was the United States government's policy of ethnic cleansing through the forced displacement of self-governing tribes of American Indians from their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River—specifically, to a designated Indian Territory (roughly, present-day Oklahoma), which ...
Republicans give us ethnic cleansing/genocide. A pox on both their houses.” The Chinese foreign ministry said it opposed the forced transfer of Palestinian citizens and reaffirmed support for ...
Political cleansing of a population is the elimination of categories of people in specific areas for political reasons. The means may vary and include forced migration , ethnic cleansing and population transfers .
Azerbaijan has denied allegations of “ethnic cleansing,” saying it is not forcing people to leave, and would peacefully reintegrate the region and guarantee rights of ethnic Armenians.