ethnic cleansing

English

Etymology

From ethnic + cleansing. Compare Serbo-Croatian etničko čišćenje, though this is probably attested later. Originally used of (and still often associated with) the wars in former Yugoslavia during the 1990s.

Noun

ethnic cleansing (uncountable)

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

Synonyms
  • ethnic purge

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