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Meanings of ethnic purification in English
A purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas.
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Examples for "ethnic cleansing"
Examples for "ethnic cleansing"
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The United Nations has condemned the Myanmar military campaign as ethnic cleansing.
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Before, the unstoppable march of ethnic cleansing, of international indecision and appeasement.
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Self-determination is employed to facilitate ethnic cleansing rather than to prevent it.
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The terrible logic of ethnic cleansing seems the logic of our century.
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Critics fear this could lead to ethnic cleansing of the local Kurdish population.
Usage of ethnic purification in English
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It has committed massacres and genocidal crimes and ethnic purification, he told delegates.