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The widespread ethnic cleansing accompanying the Croatian War of Independence that was committed by Serb-led Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and rebel militia in the occupied areas of Croatia (self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina) (1991–1995). Large numbers of Croats and non-Serbs were removed, either by murder, deportation or by being ...
Ethnic cleansing is similar to forced deportation or population transfer. While ethnic cleansing and genocide may share the same goal and methods (e.g., forced displacement), ethnic cleansing is intended to displace a persecuted population from a given territory, while genocide is intended to destroy a group. [53] [54]
Ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia; Excess mortality in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin; Exodus of Muslims from Serbia (1862) Exodus of Turks from Bulgaria (1950–1951) Expulsion of Cham Albanians; Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950) Expulsion of Jews from Spain; Expulsion of Poles by Germany; Expulsion of the Albanians ...
After the USSR collapsed in 1991, the conflict erupted into a full-scale war that persisted until a Russian-brokered peace deal in 1994. About 30,000 people were killed and more than a million ...
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Ethnic maps of Crimea showing the percentage of Crimean Tatars in the peninsula by subdivision. The first map is based on data from the Russian Empire census (1897) − those who indicated Crimean Tatar as their native language, the second one is 1939 Soviet census before the deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944, and the third from the 2014 ...
It was part of a wider campaign of ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian War: by one estimate, 40,000 Bosniaks were expelled from the Zvornik district. [ 6 ] It was the second city in Bosnia and Herzegovina that was forcefully taken over by Serb forces during the Bosnian War. [ 7 ]
Though the Excursion is not as widely remembered in the West as the Bosnian genocide and expulsion (and subsequent return) of Kosovar Albanians in neighboring Yugoslavia, [6] as of 1989 it was the largest instance of ethnic cleansing in Europe by number of victims since the expulsion of Germans living east of the Oder–Neisse line between 1944 ...