ethnic cleansing

Also known as ethnic cleaning

various ways of displacing or exterminating human beings from another ethnic group from a territory

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Ethnic cleansing is the forcible removal or elimination of people from a particular area based on their ethnicity, accomplished through methods ranging from forced displacement to extermination. It matters because it represents a severe violation of human rights and can cause immense suffering, destabilization of regions, and long-term trauma to affected populations and societies.

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Within Vinony's link graph, ethnic cleansing is referenced by 2,710 other articles, and connects out to ethnicity, nationalism and The Holocaust.

It is catalogued under topics including 1940s neologisms, Collective punishment and Ethnic cleansing.

Its subject is documented across 64 Wikipedia language editions.

Research

83 papers

'Ethnic cleansing' and 'genocide'.European journal of public health · 2007Hayden RMDOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckm080
'Ethnic cleansing bleaches the atrocities of genocide'--correction.European journal of public health · 2009Richter ED, Stanton GDOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckp068
'Ethnic cleansing' bleaches the atrocities of genocide.European journal of public health · 2008Blum R, Stanton GH, Sagi S et al.DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckm011
"Ethnic cleansing": the ultimate tragedy of intolerance.Journal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society · 1999Douglas MDOI: 10.1177/104365969901000201
Skeletal evidence of the ethnic cleansing actions in the Free City of Danzig (1939-1942) based on the KL Stutthof victims analysis.Science & justice : journal of the Forensic Science Society · 2023Drath J, Machalski G, Holicki M et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.scijus.2023.02.003
Ethnic cleansing in Myanmar: the Rohingya crisis and human rights.Lancet (London, England) · 2017Beyrer C, Kamarulzaman ADOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32519-9
Response to Hayden: Comment on 'ethnic cleansing' and 'genocide'.European journal of public health · 2008Richter ED, Stanton GHDOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckn012
AGA Clinical Practice Update on Screening and Surveillance in Individuals at Increased Risk for Gastric Cancer in the United States: Expert Review.ReviewGastroenterology · 2025Shah SC, Wang AY, Wallace MB et al.DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2024.11.001

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Encyclopedic overview

1893 painting by George Craig, depicting the deportation of the Acadians from Grand-Pré in 1755 Expulsions of Jews in Europe from 1100 to 1600

Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making the society ethnically homogeneous. Along with direct removal such as deportation or population transfer, it also includes indirect methods aimed at forced migration by coercing the victim group to flee and preventing its return, such as murder, rape, and property destruction. Both the definition and charge of ethnic cleansing is often disputed, with some researchers including and others excluding coercive assimilation or mass killings as a means of depopulating an area of a particular group, or calling it a euphemism for genocide or cultural genocide.

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