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ethnic cleansing

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ethnic cleansing noun
ethnic cleansing
noun
Learner's definition of ETHNIC CLEANSING
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: the practice of removing or killing people who belong to an ethnic group that is different from the ruling group in a country or region种族清洗
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ethnic cleansing

noun

: the expulsion, imprisonment, or killing of an ethnic minority by a dominant majority in order to achieve ethnic homogeneity

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Other contributors to the total include conflicts in Africa, the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, and natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific region. Grayson Quay, The Week, 23 May 2022 Lately he was tormented by panic attacks and nightmares of persecution, possibly triggered by reports of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. Rachel Yehuda, Scientific American, 18 June 2022 The company played a central role in politicizing the nation’s response to a pandemic, enabled the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, and has been exploited by mass killers bent on livestreaming their crimes. Roger Mcnamee, Time, 2 June 2022 Starting with the Red Terror of 1918, Lenin and Stalin shared responsibility—by enforced famine, brutal imprisonment, mass killing, ethnic cleansing or assassination—for the deaths of some 20 million. Richard Cohen, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2022 The process often involved brute force or ethnic cleansing as land was seized and handed over to immigrants. John Rennie Short, The Conversation, 14 Mar. 2022 International pressure to halt the fighting, which has been accompanied by reports of rape, massacres and ethnic cleansing, has completely failed. New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021 The right’s environmental extremists, by contrast, have murdered scores of people in acts of vigilante ethnic cleansing. Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 17 May 2022 Around the same time Mr. Carlson was promoting the notion of a South African ethnic cleansing, Fox was lurching through a post-Ailes rebuilding of its human resources organization. New York Times, 30 Apr. 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1991, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of ethnic cleansing was in 1991
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