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Ethnic cleansing was prevalent during the Age of Nationalism in Europe (19th and 20th centuries). [50] [51] Multi-ethnic European engaged in ethnic cleansing against minorities in order to pre-empt their secession and the loss of territory. [50] Ethnic cleansing was particularly prevalent during periods of interstate war. [50]
When claims of ethnic cleansing are made by non-experts (e.g. journalists or politicians) they are noted. There is significant scholarly disagreement around the definition of ethnic cleansing and which events fall under this classification. [1]
It is estimated between 1.0 [4] and 1.3 million [5] people were uprooted and that tens of thousands were killed during the ethnic cleansing. [1] Serb forces perpetrated most of the ethnic cleansing campaigns and the majority of the victims were Bosniaks. [103] [104] Percentual change of the number of ethnic Bosniaks by Municipality from 1991 to ...
The determination of whether a historical event should be considered a genocide is a matter of scholarly debate. Issues of contention include what construes genocidal intent and whether or not cultural destruction (sometimes called cultural genocide or "ethnic cleansing") constitutes genocide.
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.
The legacy of ethnic cleansing in Abkhazia has been devastating for Georgian society. The war and the subsequent systematic ethnic cleansing produced about 200,000-250,000 [3] IDPs, who fled to various Georgian regions, mostly in Samegrelo (Mingrelia) (112,208; UNHCR, June 2000). In Tbilisi and elsewhere in Georgia refugees occupied hundreds of ...
The expulsion of Poles by Germany was a prolonged anti-Polish campaign of ethnic cleansing by violent and terror-inspiring means lasting nearly half a century. It began with the concept of Pan-Germanism developed in the early 19th century and culminated in the racial policy of Nazi Germany that asserted the superiority of the Aryan race.
The responsibility to protect (R2P or RtoP) is a global political commitment which was endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly at the 2005 World Summit in order to address its four key concerns to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.