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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
It found ethnic cleansing was "the most egregious violations in both Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina" because it envisaged "summary execution, disappearance, arbitrary detention, deportation and forcible displacement of hundreds of thousands of people on the basis of their religion or nationality".
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
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 ...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Widespread abuses against civilians in the western part of Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region amount to war The post Rights groups charge ‘ethnic cleansing’ in ...