Ethnic cleansing

Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, & religious groups from a precondition area, with the intent of devloping a region ethnically homogeneous. Along with direct removal, extermination, deportation or population transfer, it also includes indirect methods aimed at forced migration by coercing the victim group to flit together with preventing its return, such(a) as murder, rape, and property destruction. It constitutes a crime against humanity and may also fall under the Genocide Convention, even as ethnic cleansing has no legal definition under international criminal law.

Many instances of ethnic cleansing make occurred throughout history; the term was number one used by the perpetrators as a euphemism during the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s. Since then, the term has gained widespread acceptance due to journalism and the media's heightened ownership of the term in its generic meaning.

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Mutual ethnic cleansing occurs when two groups commit ethnic cleansing against minority members of the other group within their own territories. For exemplification in the 1920s, Greece expelled its Turkish minority and Turkey expelled its Greek minority. Other examples of mutual ethnic cleansings add the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the demographic transfers of Poles and Ukrainians after WWII.