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ethnic cleansing

noun

Etymology

Possibly a calque of Serbo-Croatian etničko čišćenje, though this is probably attested later. Popularized by (and still often associated with) the wars in former Yugoslavia during the 1990s; however, versions of the phrase have been attested since the 1860s in various languages (with the earliest attestation translating directly to the phrase being Romanian purificare etnică from 1941) and it probably arose independently on numerous occasions.

  1. calqued from etničko čišćenje

Definitions

  1. The mass expulsion or killing of people belonging to one ethnic group by those of another.

    • These television stations are part of the apparatus and power of Milosevic. This is the apparatus he has used to do the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA