If all this brings to mind ethnic cleansing, that may also explain the response in ex-Yugoslavia.
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"It is ethnic cleansing on a massive scale, " one humanitarian aid official told CNN.
In Kosovo, Islamic heritage was seriously damaged by "ethnic cleansing" operations carried out in 1998-1999.
The military industry is "successfully testing (its equipment) in this operation of ethnic cleansing".
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Some carried union flags and banners reading 'stop the ethnic cleansing of our British identity'.
The government is bent on ethnic cleansing of territory surrounding other, as yet unexploited, oil fields.
Europeans made the first journey to Muslim lands in a campaign of ethnic cleansing the Crusades.
Given the deep hatreds engendered in recent years by Milosevic's ethnic cleansing campaigns, the solution seems clear.
If Russia felt excluded from the decision to reverse that ethnic cleansing, it mostly had itself to blame.
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And ethnic cleansing and looting of Georgian villages in South Ossetia took place under the gaze of Russian troops.
Ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia sent millions back and forth as nationalist Serbs, Croats and Bosnians formed their own fiefs.
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The darkest moments of war, occupation, mass killings, ethnic cleansing, and autocratic leadership and crony capitalism were all there.
Although the post-war returns have dented ethnic cleansing, they have not reversed it.
Gorazde, Bosnia, after the attack by Serbs in March 1992, was the refuge of many Bosnians fleeing ethnic cleansing.
In recent years particularly, it is Kosovo's Serbian Christians, not its Albanian Muslims, who are targeted for ethnic cleansing.
The move sent a strong message, consistent with a policy of ethnic cleansing, that the Rohingya should leave Myanmar permanently.
Ethnic cleansing in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the two separatist enclaves now occupied fully by Russian troops, has been atrocious.
Churkin said Russia's military action is a humanitarian campaign aimed at blocking the "ethnic cleansing" of Ossetians by ethnic Georgians.
Mr Kusen, himself a Kurd, says that opposition to the dam, and particularly the charges of ethnic cleansing, are misguided.
Another reason, less flattering to the Americans, is that after last year's frenzied ethnic cleansing fewer neighbourhoods are still mixed.
In an overture to the Holocaust, the Nazis practised mass killings and ethnic cleansing in Poland in 1939 and 1940.
On April 6, 1994, a missile shot down the plane carrying president Habyarimana, officially starting the ethnic cleansing of Tutsis.
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The mainly Arab Janjaweed militia was then accused of carrying out a policy of ethnic cleansing against Darfur's black African population.
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In war zones, fighters rape women to humiliate their enemies, to perpetrate "ethnic cleansing" and to force people to leave.
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In a bowling alley, a former cinema and a school gymnasium, the latest victims of ethnic cleansing wait out endless days.
Given the violence that followed Yugoslavia's break-up, could any court really give a fair trial to those accused of ethnic cleansing?
Dr Williams said violent extremism had made life unsustainable for Christians in northern Iraq, in a way that amounted to ethnic cleansing.
Milosevic denied that his troops have carried out a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo, a province of Serbia, Yugoslavia's dominant republic.
" She hails it for labeling all settlement activities as illegal and noting that serious settler violence is leading to "ethnic cleansing.
In Darfur, in western Sudan, the United Nations has accused pro-government Arab militias of a campaign of ethnic cleansing against non-Arab locals.
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