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ethnic cleansing  

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  • Ethnic cleansing is the intentional act of removing by force or threat of force any national, ethnic, religious, racial, or socioeconomically homogeneous group from a specified area of land, usually within the borders of a sovereign state, up to and including genocide. While it can be said that all genocide is ethnic cleansing, not all ethnic cleansings are genocide. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Ethnic Cleansing]

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