In an overture to the Holocaust, the Nazis practised mass killings and ethnic cleansing in Poland in 1939 and 1940.
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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Given the violence that followed Yugoslavia's break-up, could any court really give a fair trial to those accused of 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.
If Milosevic and ethnic cleansing are to be defeated, he said, then NATO had to muster all the military means that it may require.
Today, led by Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, Serbia is taking bold steps towards becoming a liberal democracy which abjures ethnic cleansing and political violence.
Non-contiguous enclaves -- drawn as much by war and ethnic cleansing as by traditional demographics -- will simply invite future conflict, not diminish its likelihood.
Because we believe in human dignity, the world must have more effective means to stabilize regions in turmoil and to halt religious violence and ethnic cleansing.
But it is also true that more than 200, 000 Georgians were driven out of Abkhazia in a burst of ethnic cleansing, and that Russia backed Abkhazia militarily.
Cohen rejected calls from several congressional leaders to commit ground troops to stop a reported campaign of "ethnic cleansing" by Yugoslav troops and Serbian special police in Kosovo.
And there are ominous reports that the Sudanese government, in what would be ethnic cleansing, is inviting Arab tribesmen from Niger and Chad to occupy the lands vacated by the refugees.
Even though exceptions were made for people who could prove that they had opposed Hitler, the expulsion policy was still an example of collective guilt or, as many pointed out, ethnic cleansing.
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How fitting it is that we are standing against ethnic cleansing with our wonderful, myriad, rainbow, multi-ethnic military in our increasingly diverse society that involves both the strength of our differences and the even more powerful pull of our shared American values.
And we saw it all before just a few years ago in Bosnia for four long years until NATO acted, combining with the resistance of Bosnians and Croatians to bring the Dayton peace agreement and to turn the tide of ethnic cleansing there.
Recently, a number of Spanish scholars, such as Jose Erugo, Celso Garcia de la Riega, Otero Sanchez and Nicholas Dias Perez, have concluded that Columbus was a Marrano, whose survival depended upon the suppression of all evidence of his Jewish background in face of the brutal, systematic ethnic cleansing.
American troops have escorted a few refugees back to their homes in the Serb part of Bosnia, though other de-ethnic-cleansing operations elsewhere in Bosnia have failed.
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