The United Nations has accused Myanmar of ethnic cleansing and last week Washington said the military's campaign included "horrendous atrocities" aimed at "ethnic cleansing".
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When Facebook becomes 'the beast': Myanmar activists say social media aids genocide Ethnic cleansing The UN and the US say they believe the violence against the Rohingya constitutes ethnic cleansing.
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Ethnic cleansing is not recognized as a separate crime under international law but allegations of ethnic cleansing as part of wider, systematic human rights violations have been heard in international courts.
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Causes of Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide: For students studying the Holocaust, or other past examples of genocide or ethnic cleansing, Amanda Taub's essay in The Interpreter, "Myanmar Follows Global Pattern in How Ethnic Cleansing Begins," addresses the inherent dangers of unbridled nationalism to minority rights, whether in Nazi Germany, the former Yugoslavia or Myanmar.
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The United Nations has described the campaign as ethnic cleansing.
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" She added, "'Ethnic cleansing' is a very heavy, loaded term.
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And, arguably, it may turn out to be ethnic cleansing.
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Ethnic cleansing only stopped in Kosovo when NATO moved in.
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Nearly half died as a result of this ethnic cleansing.
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" However, he declined to label the crisis as "ethnic cleansing.
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The State Department has accused Myanmar of committing ethnic cleansing.
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The UN and US has described it as ethnic cleansing.
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Such silence simply legitimizes the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya.
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This swap is effectively a peaceful form of ethnic cleansing.
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Ethnic cleansing forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes.
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Bigots have incited ethnic cleansing on newly free social media.
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The United Nations condemned the Myanmar military campaign as ethnic cleansing.
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But that does not mean genocidal ethnic cleansing has been avoided.
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Ethnic cleansing is all the easier because identity papers record ethnicity.
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But she has failed even to criticise its blatant ethnic cleansing.
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The Tatmadaw, Myanmar's army, is chiefly responsible for the ethnic cleansing.
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It rejects accusations of ethnic cleansing, saying it is fighting terrorists.
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Senior United Nations officials have described the violence as "ethnic cleansing".
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The United Nations said the military action amounted to ethnic cleansing.
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The UN and the UK have described it as ethnic cleansing.
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" Pakistan, which also claims Kashmir, has accused India of "ethnic cleansing.
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Evidence quickly emerged of ethnic cleansing and war crimes against Kurds.
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The UN objected, citing concerns it would look like ethnic cleansing.
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During the Bosnian conflict, a particularly pernicious tactic emerged: ethnic cleansing.
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When the country committed genocide and ethnic cleansing against Native Americans?
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It speaks for victims of persecution, harassment, deportation, and ethnic cleansing.
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The United Nations says the crackdown has amounted to ethnic cleansing.
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The United States has declared the campaign to be ethnic cleansing.
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The war was marked by extreme sexual violence and ethnic cleansing.
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Have we forgotten the ethnic cleansing campaign against Muslims in Bosnia?
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Ollivant, for his part, thinks claims of ethnic cleansing are overstated.
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The United Nations says the government's actions amount to ethnic cleansing.
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Myanmar's leader denies the country's persecuted Muslim minority is undergoing ethnic cleansing Myanmar's leader denies the country's persecuted Muslim minority is undergoing ethnic cleansing Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi denied Wednesday that ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people is underway, despite a damning U.N. report that the country's military forces in Rakhine State are committing mass gang-rape and slaughtering babies.
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" 'Ethnic cleansing': Roebuck went on to describe the Turkish military efforts to drive Kurdish forces out of an area where the Turkish government plans to resettle up to 28503 million Syrian refugees nothing short of "ethnic cleansing.
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The U.N has called the campaign a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing".
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The U.N. has described Myanmar's counteroffensive as ethnic cleansing, which Myanmar denies.
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" The US government has called the violence against the Rohingya "ethnic cleansing.
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" A senior UN official suggested the goal appears to be "ethnic cleansing.
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The United Nations described Myanmar's crackdown as ethnic cleansing, which Myanmar denies.
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She showed little sign of acknowledging ethnic cleansing, as critics have urged.
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The false narratives, while understandable, can buttress Myanmar's denials of ethnic cleansing.
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Myanmar invited to US-Thailand military exercise, despite accusations of ethnic cleansing
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" The United Nations called the situation "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.
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Speaking out against ethnic cleansing should not be too high a bar.
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U.S. diplomat William Roebuck accused Turkey of backing ethnic cleansing against Kurds.
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The United Nations has condemned the Myanmar military campaign as ethnic cleansing.
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As of March, ethnic cleansing was still underway, a U.N. official warned.
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The U.N. rights agency said it was "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing".
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The United Nations has called the assault a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing".
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Myanmar has rejected accusations of ethnic cleansing, and dismissed most accounts of atrocities.
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The United Nations and Western governments denounced the military operations as ethnic cleansing.
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson labeled the actions as ethnic cleansing.
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Myanmar denies ethnic cleansing saying its security forces have mounted legitimate clearance operations.
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On Twitter, some users likened his speech to a suggestion of ethnic cleansing.
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Both the UN and the US have described the campaign as ethnic cleansing.
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There are few references to the accusations of ethnic cleansing or alleged massacres.
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There are no references to the accusations of ethnic cleansing or alleged massacres.
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Despite widespread slanders of ethnic cleansing, there is no genocide against the Palestinians.
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But when it comes to ethnic cleansing, the pope has been more outspoken.
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The United Nations has denounced it as a classic example of ethnic cleansing.
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It was a controversial and ambitious scheme, with dark overtones of ethnic cleansing.
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U.N-mandated investigators have accused Myanmar's army of "genocidal intent" and ethnic cleansing.
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The most serious risks for them extend beyond war to potential ethnic cleansing.
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The motive for the crime, investigators say, was nothing less than ethnic cleansing.
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Tillerson looks ready to call out Myanmar for 'ethnic cleansing' of Rohingya Muslims
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Both the UN and the United States have labeled the violence ethnic cleansing.
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The United Nations and several countries have accused the military of ethnic cleansing.
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The UN and the US say they believe the violence constitutes ethnic cleansing.
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U.N-mandated investigators have accused the army of "genocidal intent" and ethnic cleansing.
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"I don't think there is ethnic cleansing going on," she told the BBC.
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Ethnic cleansing like what is happening in Myanmar can fall under that description.
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The U.N. and U.S. officials have called the government&aposs military campaign ethnic cleansing.
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A top U.N. official has called the operation a textbook case of "ethnic cleansing".
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Russia is experienced at ethnic cleansing under the cover of a legitimate military operation.
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In 2000 he fled to the Netherlands from his native Darfur, escaping ethnic cleansing.
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Myanmar has rejected accusations of ethnic cleansing and has labeled Rohingya militants as terrorists.
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But a lot of Americans don't know about Jackson's ethnic cleansing of the Cherokee.
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The report's authors concluded the violence amounted to ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
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U.N.-mandated investigators have accused the Myanmar army of "genocidal intent" and ethnic cleansing.
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U.N-mandated investigators have accused the Myanmar army of "genocidal intent" and ethnic cleansing.
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Sure, if you arent bothered by literal ethnic cleansing, it's probably real nice scenery.
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" The United Nations and other governments have already labeled the matter as "ethnic cleansing.
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Both the UN and the United States say the violence amounts to ethnic cleansing.
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The United States and the United Nations have described the situation as ethnic cleansing.
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The United Nations has already denounced it as a classic example of ethnic cleansing.
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Myanmar denies ethnic cleansing, saying its forces are conducting a legitimate campaign against terrorists.
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The U.N. has called the Myanmar military operations a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing".
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On Monday, the Security Council is scheduled to discuss the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
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Top U.N. officials have denounced the violence as a classic example of ethnic cleansing.
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But NATO and the United States achieved their primary goal: halting the ethnic cleansing.
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U.N-mandated investigators have accused the Myanmar military of "genocidal intent" and ethnic cleansing.
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Our Interpreter column finds that Myanmar is following a global pattern of ethnic cleansing.
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The false narratives, while understandable, can buttress Myanmar's denials of ethnic cleansing, she says.
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In such conditions, further acts of genocide or ethnic cleansing are likely to occur.
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In 2017, hate speech on Facebook contributed to ethnic cleansing against Myanmar's Rohingya minority.
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However, he has failed to stop local politicians from fomenting ethnic cleansing at home.
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Brownback described the campaign against the Rohingya as "ethnic cleansing against a Muslim minority".
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Blumenthal attacked Clinton's slow response to the ethnic cleansing against Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs.
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According to Unicef, systematic rape as a weapon of war is linked to ethnic cleansing.
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"The ethnic cleansing in Rakhine state has made the government even more intolerant," he said.
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The United Nations described the operation as ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya, which Myanmar denies.
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Myanmar denies ethnic cleansing, saying its security forces had mounted legitimate counter-insurgency clearance operations.
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U.N. investigators determined earlier this year that Facebook had facilitated ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims.
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The military denies ethnic cleansing, saying its security forces mounted legitimate counter-insurgency clearance operations.
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A senior U.N. rights official said in December parts of the conflict involved ethnic cleansing.
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The United Nations described Myanmar's crackdown as ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya, which Myanmar denies.
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They carried signs saying "STOP China ethnic cleansing of Uighurs" and "Tibet dying, China lies".
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The U.N. and United States described it as ethnic cleansing - an accusation which Myanmar denies.
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This allegiance argument, used through the ages, gives credence to expulsions, ethnic cleansing and murder.
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The United States, as well as the United Nations, have called the crackdown "ethnic cleansing".
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Washington said last week that the military's campaign included "horrendous atrocities" aimed at "ethnic cleansing".
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We have condemned the Myanmar military's campaign as ethnic cleansing, as has the United Nations.
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Some have also questioned whether Mr. Netanyahu's predecessors should be considered guilty of ethnic cleansing.
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"It's extraordinarily significant when the United States formally designates something as ethnic cleansing," he said.
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United Nations officials called the campaign against the Rohingya a "textbook example" of ethnic cleansing.
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These days, the term "ethnic cleansing" is uniformly understood to be a synonym for genocide.
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Myanmar has rejected accusations of ethnic cleansing, blaming most of the violence on the insurgents.
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But many of those new facilities have been built on land emptied by ethnic cleansing.
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Brutal images show the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar that the US just called 'ethnic cleansing'
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"This could be the beginning of a larger trend of ethnic cleansing in northeastern Syria."
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But many of those new facilities have been built on land emptied by ethnic cleansing.
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He's called for segregated buses "for the Milanese" and for "controlled ethnic cleansing" of immigrants.
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The military have denied accusations of ethnic cleansing by the United States and United Nations.
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Myanmar denies ethnic cleansing, and says its security forces mounted legitimate counter-insurgency clearance operations.
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The United Nations called it "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing," which Myanmar has denied.
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Do the Kurds get credit for their ethnic cleansing of Kirkuk and thus get its oil?
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Massacres, rapes, displacement of populations and other atrocities ensued, many in "ethnic cleansing" campaigns against Muslims.
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"The IDB cannot remain silent, when Myanmar's Rohingya citizens are victims of ethnic cleansing," Hasina added.
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And the spread of the misinformation over Facebook Messenger that's contributed to ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
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So the threat of ethnic cleansing by Turkish troops in Syria is hitting him especially hard.
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Myanmar has rejected accusations of ethnic cleansing and dismissed most accounts of atrocities, blaming Rohingya "terrorists".
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The military has denied its troops took part in ethnic cleansing in Rakhine State last year.
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The United Nations described Myanmar's crackdown as ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya, a charge Myanmar denies.
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The United Nations has said the violence amounts to ethnic cleansing and risks escalating into genocide.
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The sovereign could install the racist apartheid regime or engage in ethnic cleansing, or even genocide.
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There is no place for genocide, for ethnic cleansing, for war crimes in the 21st century.
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Let's be clear: this is intentioned-laced ethnic cleansing; it is a war crime, when proven.
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The Myanmar government, which denies the Rohingya exist, has tried to cover the ethnic cleansing up.
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Nothing. The Europeans failed to act, and a new horror entered the world's vocabulary: ethnic cleansing.
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These early cases of gun violence belong to a history of settler-colonialism and ethnic cleansing.
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His misguided policy in past administrations helped fuel South Sudan's descent into ethnic cleansing in 2016.
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And she cheered President Clinton's adroit use of air power to forestall ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.
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Facebook has received intense scrutiny over how its platform has helped exacerbate ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
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United Nations Secretary General António Guterres designated the atrocities as ethnic cleansing back on September 13.
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"There is no genocide and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar," said U Zaw Htay, a government spokesman.
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In November, the Trump administration also applied the "ethnic cleansing" label to the Myanmar government's actions.
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The agency operates under Myanmar's armed forces, which are notorious for torturing dissidents and ethnic cleansing.
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Their assassinations sparked a campaign of ethnic cleansing whose scope and brutality would shock the world.
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A top U.N. official has described the military's actions as a textbook case of "ethnic cleansing".
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Early on, Myanmar officials said they were merely responding to terrorist attacks, not pursuing ethnic cleansing.
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Even war, sometimes in the form of ethnic cleansing, erupted in the Balkans in the 1990s.
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"No, it's not ethnic cleansing," she said in a rare interview on the subject in 2013.
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He has been accused of everything from ethnic cleansing to wanting to kill a million people.
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Last week, Trump all but greenlighted the ethnic cleansing of Kurds without an ounce of remorse.
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The U.N. and the United States described it as ethnic cleansing - an accusation that Myanmar denies.
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They demand policies ranging from stricter controls on immigration to wholesale ethnic cleansing, or even genocide.
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The ultimate goal was "the ethnic cleansing of the Muslim minority in Myanmar," Mr. McKissick said.
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The bombing campaign ultimately ended the ethnic cleansing unleashed by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in Kosovo.
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At the time, a U.N. official accused the government of seeking "ethnic cleansing" of the Rohingya.
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A voice-over likens Paul McCartney's promotion of "meat-free Mondays" to "ethnic-cleansing-free Tuesdays".
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In September, the company came under fire for reportedly censoring posts documenting ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
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The State Department is considering formally declaring the crackdown on Rohingya Muslims to be ethnic cleansing.
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United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres designated the atrocities as ethnic cleansing back on September 13.
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He once called for a "peaceful ethnic cleansing," a claim he denied during the interview with CNN.
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Rights groups have also reported widespread rape and looting that the United Nations says indicates ethnic cleansing.
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The United Nations and the United States described the situation as ethnic cleansing, an accusation Myanmar denies.
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The violence, which the U.N. describes as ethnic cleansing, has pushed more than 600,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh.
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A senior UN official this week described the military operation as "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing".
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Five years into the conflict, marked by successive waves of ethnic cleansing, the humanitarian situation is dire.
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From Syria to the ethnic cleansing of Myanmar's Rohingyas, this has proved to be a pious dream.
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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Tuesday of the risk of ethnic cleansing and regional destabilization.
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Jazz artist Jamala is representing Ukraine with a song about Stalin and ethnic cleansing in the Crimea.
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The United Nations has called the campaign a textbook example of "ethnic cleansing", a charge Myanmar denies.
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Did nobody consider working on security improvements for augmentations, instead of jumping straight to techno-ethnic cleansing?
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The UN and rights groups have long accused the government of ethnic cleansing through its repressive policies.
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"Myanmar's Imagined Jihadis" provides insight into the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in Myanmar by the government.
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Saddam orchestrated an ethnic cleansing campaign that featured forced relocations and the slaughter of over 180,000 innocents.
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The United States, United Kingdom and United Nations have all declared that ethnic cleansing has taken place.
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Its end game, no matter how benign its adherents' phrasing or attire, will always be ethnic cleansing.
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The United States has said the campaign by Myanmar's military included "horrendous atrocities" aimed at "ethnic cleansing".
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The displacement and ethnic cleansing of Native Americans by white settlers becomes the foundation of Jacksonian democracy.
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From civil war to U.N.-declared ethnic cleansing, the country and its citizens have faced constant conflict.
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Myanmar's government has conceded some soldiers may have committed crimes but has rejected charges of ethnic cleansing.
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That pressure intensified last month, after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the violence ethnic cleansing.
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The ethnic cleansing reached a new level a year ago, after Rohingya militants attacked Myanmar security posts.
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The United Nations has called the military's campaign in northern Rakhine a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing".
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The United Nations and the United States described it as ethnic cleansing - an accusation which Myanmar denies.
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The United States also uses the term ethnic cleansing to describe the military's campaign against the Rohingya.
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Generals in Myanmar continue to call the shots as they have unleashed a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
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Activists in Myanmar, for example, have accused Facebook of censoring reports of ethnic cleansing in the country.
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Almost every genocide, ethnic cleansing or inter-ethnic conflict in modern history was preceded by violent words.
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Bangladesh was praised for taking in nearly 1 million Rohingya people who fled ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
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That suggests revenge killings — which are, to be clear, war crimes — but not necessarily organized ethnic cleansing.
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The United States and the United Nations have called the military campaign against the Rohingya "ethnic cleansing".
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The killings took place during a military crackdown that United Nations officials have said constituted ethnic cleansing.
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Buddhist-majority Myanmar rejects accusations of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity and has denounced rights abuses.
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In September, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the situation in Rakhine was best described as ethnic cleansing.
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Facebook has been aware of its role in violence and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar since at least 2014.
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US lawmakers and human rights groups say the anti-Rohingya crackdown amounts to ethnic cleansing and even genocide.
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History has demonstrated that acts of ethnic cleansing often happen under the cover of combatting a perceived evil.
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The crackdown has been described by the United States and U.N. as ethnic cleansing, which Myanmar repeatedly rejects.
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Among those victims of ethnic cleansing were relatives of the world's most famous Serb, Nikola Tesla, an inventor.
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Assam's pursuit of slow, democratic and legally sanctioned ethnic cleansing is also causing friction with the central government.
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It's also known for providing incredible breeding grounds for mob violence in India and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
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The United States and U.N. have described the operation as ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya, which Myanmar denies.
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The United States, as well as United Nations, have described the military crackdown in Myanmar as "ethnic cleansing".
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The United Nations has branded the military's campaign "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing" of the minority Rohingya.
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Myanmar denies ethnic cleansing, saying it is fighting Rohingya terrorists who have claimed attacks on the security forces.
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Speaking to the BBC in April, Suu Kyi denied ethnic cleansing was taking place against Myanmar's Rohingya minority.
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It is the only country that can tell China to stop its ethnic cleansing of the Uighur people.
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"Sure, if you arent bothered by literal ethnic cleansing, it's probably real nice scenery," wrote one Twitter user.
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The United Nations has said the security crackdown may amount to crimes against humanity and possibly ethnic cleansing.
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The United Nations has said the violence amounts to ethnic cleansing and risks setting the stage for genocide.
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The United States has stopped short of calling the crime genocide and has instead labeled them ethnic cleansing.
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Mr. Karadzic rebuked me, saying I'd misrepresented ethnic cleansing as a policy of forcing Muslims from their homes.
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Min Aung Hlaing, the commander of Myanmar's powerful military and the architect of the so-called ethnic cleansing.
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How did you deal with the realization that your hometown was in fact a site of ethnic cleansing?
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The campaign against the Rohingya has been called "ethnic cleansing" by the United States and the United Nations.
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Other top United Nations officials have called the anti-Rohingya purge a campaign of ethnic cleansing or worse.
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But around the world, political systems have rebounded from far worse: civil wars, genocides, ethnic cleansing and apartheid.
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In Myanmar, for example, misinformation on Facebook has reportedly helped fuel ethnic cleansing, creating an enormous refugee crisis.
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For decades, the regime had carried out campaigns of forced assimilation and ethnic cleansing against its Kurdish citizens.
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"Friends, I'm coming out as a family of the victims of China's ethnic-cleansing concentration camps," she wrote.
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An ethnic cleansing campaign since August 2017 has driven hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees out of Myanmar.
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The US is going to participate in military drills with Myanmar after accusing the country of 'ethnic cleansing'
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Revoking or preventing the issuance of passports to specific ethnic groups is often the beginning of ethnic cleansing.
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Turkey's incursion has displaced thousands of Kurds and been described as ethnic cleansing by some senior US officials.
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Myanmar has denied that ethnic cleansing has taken place, and said its troops were engaged in legitimate counterinsurgency operations.
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There was slavery, the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans, and the fact that women couldn't own property or vote.
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But the victims have overwhelmingly come from the Hema community, raising fears that an ethnic cleansing campaign is underway.
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" Last week, the United Nations' human rights chief called the assault on Rohingyas a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing.
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Buddhist-majority Myanmar has rejected accusations that its forces are engaged in ethnic cleansing, saying there was no evidence.
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It includes mass rape, gang rape, sexual slavery, and rape as a form of torture, ethnic cleansing, and terrorism.
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The open letter calls out the blatant ethnic cleansing being hidden under the guise of fighting terrorism and insurgency.
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The United States has said the campaign by mainly Buddhist Myanmar's military included "horrendous atrocities" aimed at "ethnic cleansing".
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For Palestinians, the foundation of Israel's supposed democracy was built on our suffering through dispossession, ethnic cleansing, and discrimination.
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Thaung Tun said charges of ethnic cleansing and genocide were very serious and should not be bandied about lightly.
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These people escaped ethnic cleansing at the hands of the Myanmar military only now to face natural-made catastrophes.
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As a result, many Crimeans welcomed the unmarked Russian troops, believing they were being saved from possible ethnic cleansing.
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The world's second-largest economy raised its hand this week to help halt the ongoing ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
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" Myanmar officials insist the violence has been incited by Rohingya militants and have denied UN accusations of "ethnic cleansing.
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Over the past year Myanmar has made few, if any, meaningful changes to the structures that enabled ethnic cleansing.
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Many of the militias on both sides are riddled with extremists with a barely disguised agenda of ethnic cleansing.
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The crackdown, which the United Nations has said was ethnic cleansing, has sent nearly 700,000 people fleeing to Bangladesh.
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The question now is exactly what can governments do to halt what the United States recently called ethnic cleansing?
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But in Myanmar, and even in Rakhine itself, there is stark denial that any ethnic cleansing is taking place.
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Many of the Bisbee deportees had Spanish or Slavic surnames, and their removal has an element of ethnic cleansing.
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He has criticized Myanmar for its ethnic cleansing of Rohingya, though he has declined to describe it as genocide.
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In Myanmar, the country's Buddhist generals have orchestrated a terrifying campaign of ethnic cleansing against the country's Rohingya Muslims.
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The recent ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people of Myanmar was preceded by propaganda associating Rohingya men with rape.
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This report breaks down what happened in Myanmar, where viral hoaxes on Facebook fueled ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims.
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Erdogan called on the United Nations to prevent "ethnic cleansing", saying as many as 600,000 more refugees could arrive.
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" He also wrote: "No, they aren't facing ethnic cleansing or anything remotely close to what that incendiary term suggests.
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" On others, the "regime" had routed "the revolutionaries" and planned to carry out "ethnic cleansing" against "the Syrian people.
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The United States has condemned the violence as ethnic cleansing and contributed $104 million in refugee and emergency assistance.
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The human rights chief had previously described Myanmar military operations in Rakhine as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.
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That made, for example, his ethnic cleansing of Chechnya hard for people elsewhere to know about, much less criticize.
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And [Facebook has] been almost entirely culpable for the disinformation crisis that helped justify this massacre—this ethnic cleansing.
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On appeal, prosecutors had sought a life sentence and a second genocide conviction for his role in ethnic cleansing.
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The game doesn't track deaths in the gulags or ethnic cleansing—how could it and still expect to sell?
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The United States and the United Nations have described the campaign as ethnic cleansing of the stateless Rohingya people.
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The United Nations has condemned the military campaign there as ethnic cleansing, a charge Buddhist-majority Myanmar has rejected.
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Photo: GettyFor years, an ethnic cleansing campaign by Myanmar's Buddhist majority against its Muslim Rohingya has torn the country apart.
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Elsewhere, she sings about ethnic cleansing in Kosovo ("The Wheel") and war-torn communities in Afghanistan ("The Ministry of Defence").
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However, she did not address the U.N. accusations of ethnic cleansing by the military, which is in charge of security.
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But as he said when addressing Facebook being used to organize ethnic cleansing in Myanmar: "it's a constant challenge."[Vox]
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That forced assimilation was part of a larger, centuries long pattern that could plainly be called genocide or ethnic cleansing.
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He's probably best known for arguing in favor of "ethnic cleansing" and leading a Nazi salute in our nation's capital.
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It indirectly supports the ultimate end game of Kurdish ethnic cleansing, which was sealed with the recent deal with Russia.
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For a people steeped in a history of ethnic cleansing, it's never a good feeling when "Jews" is trending online.
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In Mali, for example, struggles over resources between farmers and herders as the population rises have escalated into ethnic cleansing.
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Now, the Myanmar army stands accused by United Nations officials of having committed widespread killings, mass rape and ethnic cleansing.
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But this is certainly one of the biggest refugee crises and cases of ethnic cleansing since the second world war.
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He has advocated a "peaceful ethnic cleansing," where people who are not of European descent voluntarily leave the United States.
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He didn't really say, nor did he truly address the underlying premise of his dream: massive violence and ethnic cleansing.
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Suu Kyi has repeatedly denied accusations of human-rights abuses against the Rohingya or that ethnic cleansing has taken place.
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He said there is "no ethnic cleansing or genocide" in Myanmar, adding that those charges should not be lobbed lightly.
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Ankara bristles at US support for the YPG, which it has accused of ethnic cleansing and attacks on its soldiers.
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" UN Human Rights Chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein has referred to the plight of the Rohingya as "textbook ethnic cleansing.
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However, Tillerson is not the first world leader to call out Myanmar for engaging in ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya.
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The classic case of ethnic cleansing, religious cleansing taking place in central African republics, Sudan and throughout the Middle East.
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A Trump campaign aide who argues that Democrats committed "ethnic cleansing" in a plot to "liquidate" the white working class.
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In Myanmar, government forces have carried out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya, the country's Muslim minority group.
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It would dramatically increase the prospect of future conflict reminiscent of the wars of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Rwanda.
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Many were linked to Serbian ethnic cleansing campaigns in Bosnia, where more than 1,000 mosques and churches were deliberately destroyed.
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A year ago, following deadly militant attacks, security forces responded by launching abhorrent ethnic cleansing of ethnic #Rohingya in Burma.
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This forced assimilation was a form of ethnic cleansing, an effort to "kill the Indian...save the man," as Capt.
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"There is no possibility of crimes against humanity, no evidence of ethnic cleansing, as per U.N. accusations," said Myint Swe.
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Bangladesh has borne the brunt of Myanmar's crisis, which the U.N. says has all the trademarks of "textbook" ethnic cleansing.
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How a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign in DRC was made worse by Trump's "America First" policies and the world's neglect.
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Sometimes Myanmar uses guns and machetes for ethnic cleansing, and that's how Sono Wara earlier lost her mother and sister.
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Myanmar's ethnic cleansing became impossible to hide with the exodus in August of Rohingya bearing stories of massacres and pogroms.
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The journalists had been reporting on the mass killings and ethnic cleansing by soldiers and Buddhist mobs in Rakhine State.
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Bangladesh, already the world's most crowded major nation, has accepted more than a million Rohingya fleeing ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
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International leaders and rights groups have denounced Myanmar for ethnic cleansing — some have called it genocide — and castigated her inaction.
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In Myanmar, Facebook has been used as a tool of the military to aid in the ethnic cleansing of thousands.
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The violence, which the United Nations described as ethnic cleansing, pushed hundreds of thousands of Rohingya out of the country.
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It's a deceptively simple thought that I keep returning to: When this happens to us, we call it ethnic cleansing.
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"I don't think there is ethnic cleansing going on," she said in a rare interview with the BBC last week.
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Some 700,000 Rohingya fled their homes last year after an army crackdown that the United States denounced as ethnic cleansing.
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The United Nations has stated that Facebook played a role in the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
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" A top U.N. human rights official had previously said Myanmar's targeting of the Rohingya appears to be "textbook ethnic cleansing.
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South Sudan, which has collapsed into civil war and ethnic cleansing, hasn't exactly bolstered the arguments of independence movements elsewhere.
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The United Nations has said the army may have committed genocide; the United States has called the action ethnic cleansing.
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The killings resemble the early stages of an ethnic cleansing campaign directed at members of the Hema ethnic community here.
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A record of facilitating ethnic cleansing, leaking private data and generally undermining democracy would usually impact badly on a business.
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The Trump administration says ethnic cleansing targeting Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar has not stopped despite growing condemnation from the international community.
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The United Nations has denounced the offensive as ethnic cleansing aimed at driving out Rohingya - a charge the Myanmar government denies.
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Anti-Muslim attacks and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar and Sri Lanka have been specifically linked to mobilization on the social network.
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Newsfeeds in Myanmar were pushing a narrative that helped justify ethnic cleansing and other human rights violations on a massive scale.
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"We haven't seen widespread evidence of ethnic cleansing," said James Jeffrey, special representative for Syria, at a House of Representatives hearing.
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In Myanmar, for instance, some 420,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh to escape what the United Nations is calling ethnic cleansing.
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The break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s brought horrifying ethnic cleansing, mistrust and artificial barriers around issues of religious differences.
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"We must stop the massive immigration and ethnic cleansing of the people whose forefathers created America," Duke said in the message.
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Leaders in those Yugoslav wars saw ethnic cleansing as the best way to create new nation-states unpeopled by troublesome minorities.
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The court heard evidence from more than 4,650 witnesses in cases relating to genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass murder and sexual violence.
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The U.N. says ethnic cleansing has taken place and warned of genocide, amid reports of murder, rape, and torture of civilians.
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Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's State Counselor and de-facto leader, denied any ethnic cleansing in an interview with the BBC.
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Since 2013, HRW has maintained that Burmese authorities were committing crimes against humanity in a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingyas.
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Self-styled Muslim self-defense groups sprang up in PK5, claiming to protect the Muslim civilians concentrated there from ethnic cleansing.
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Kurdish officials have consistently denied claims of ethnic cleansing of places such as Tel Rifaat, captured by the YPG in February.
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Censorship, arrests, assassinations, abductions, the banning of the Crimean Tatars' representative body — the Mejlis — all threaten another tragedy and ethnic cleansing.
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U.S. officials have been reluctant to label the situation as "ethnic cleansing" even though the United Nations has used the term.
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Moreover, war or ethnic cleansing does not cause this type of migration; rather it is calculated and manufactured by authoritarian governments.
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Along with General Ratko Mladic, who led the Bosnian Serb army, Mr Karadzic presided over a murderous campaign of ethnic cleansing.
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His calls for murder, extermination and ethnic cleansing (acted upon by his men) were simply a means of "galvanising Serb forces".
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The violence, which the United Nations says has amounted to ethnic cleansing, has forced a third of the population to flee.
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"Jeffrey didn't go so far as to confirm Kobane's prediction on Wednesday, saying: "We haven't seen widespread evidence of ethnic cleansing.
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Opponents of the government increasingly see the process as "ethnic cleansing," as it has primarily displaced members of the Sunni majority.
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson last week called the military operation "ethnic cleansing" and threatened targeted sanctions for "horrendous atrocities".
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The Navajo Nation exists because of an 1868 treaty that came after years of ethnic cleansing attempts by the US government.
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Pakistan and others fear that India's power grab may lead to ethnic cleansing by Hindus of the area's Muslim-majority population.
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Myanmar's ethnic-cleansing generals will be able to retreat deeper into China's orbit, unburdened by any fears of being held accountable.
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The United Nations estimates that at least 10,000 people were killed last year in the military-led outbreak of ethnic cleansing.
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Last year, 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled the country in an exodus that the U.S. and other countries condemned as ethnic cleansing.
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What responsibility does the world have to end what the United Nations is calling "ethnic cleansing" and many are labeling "genocide"?
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They are fleeing a crackdown being carried out by the Myanmar military that bears all the hallmarks of an ethnic cleansing.
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I was not surprised to see Turkey once more committing ethnic cleansing and targeting Christian communities in Northeast Syria this year.
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The global community has come to describe the forcible expulsion of Rohingya from Myanmar since 2017 as ethnic cleansing, even genocide.
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For this column, I traveled to a killing field to report on ethnic cleansing that may well get worse in 2017.
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My family considers their forced removal to be an ethnic cleansing; Kashmiri Hindus have lived in refugee camps for decades since.
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They have not gone so far as to propose outright ethnic cleansing; Gaffney, in his speech, says he has Muslim friends.
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Self-styled Muslim self-defense groups sprang up in PK5, claiming to protect the Muslim civilians concentrated there against ethnic cleansing.
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Myanmar committed a "textbook" campaign of ethnic cleansing against its Rohingya minority, killing thousands and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee.
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Close to 700,000 Rohingya, a minority Muslim group, have fled Myanmar in the wake of a coordinated campaign of ethnic cleansing.
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The United Nations has called Myanmar's actions "ethnic cleansing", a charge Myanmar rejects, blaming Rohingya "terrorists" for most accounts of atrocities.
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The United Nations has branded the military's campaign in Rakhine State "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing" of the minority Rohingya.
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The United States has accused the military of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya, who are widely reviled in Buddhist-majority Myanmar.
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Their ensuing crackdown drove nearly 700,000 Rohingya into neighboring Bangladesh in what the United Nations called ''a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.
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"My worry is that this data will be used by government for mass surveillance, ethnic cleansing and other insidious purposes," Satpathy said.
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The Burmese military's actions against the Rohingya have come under harsh criticism internationally, including charges that it was carrying out ethnic cleansing.
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The plight of the Rohingya has brought outrage from around the world and the United Nations has called the operations ethnic cleansing.
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The term ethnic cleansing itself was a euphemism used by the Ustaše in 1941 to describe their own intent to murder Serbs.
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We also need to go a step further and be explicit about the types of ethnic cleansing to which these people allude.
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I want people to know that Palestinians, as a diasporic people who continue to survive ethnic cleansing, live all over the world.
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The United Nations has denounced a ferocious military crackdown in response to the attacks as ethnic cleansing aimed at driving out Rohingya.
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The government sees these groups as rebels to be exterminated, and tacitly encourages the ethnic cleansing of areas thought to support them.
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The report also refers to the "deliberate, state-sanctioned, long-term ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people" which "some argue [is] genocide".
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"We should call it what it is: ethnic cleansing," says Héni Nsaibia, from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, an NGO.
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Steve Chabot (R-OH) and Joseph Crowley (D-NY) wrote that it was "clear what is happening is ethnic cleansing" in Myanmar.
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Her office has demanded apologies from the BBC and the UN's refugee agency after the latter alleged "ethnic cleansing" was taking place.
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In March, the U.N. said ethnic cleansing is taking place in South Sudan, with the country on the verge of a genocide.
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Myanmar wants to see clear evidence to support accusations of ethnic cleansing or genocide, National Security Adviser Thaung Tun said on Thursday.
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THROUGHOUT the brutal wars that tore apart the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, Vojislav Seselj was a leading proponent of ethnic cleansing.
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" Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, has dubbed this crisis a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing.
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Make no mistake: what has occurred was a systematic and widespread campaign of ethnic cleansing and crimes so serious they shock humanity.
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" The Myanmar authorities have said the violence in Rakhine State was instigated by Rohingya militants and deny UN accusations of "ethnic cleansing.
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The ethnic cleansing of Rohingya from Rakhine state in Myanmar this year has elicited a lot of noise, but very little action.
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The group blew up mosques and ancient archeological sites , and pursued a campaign of ethnic cleansing through mass murder and sexual slavery.
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Francis did not specifically address allegations of ethnic cleansing but said religion has an important role to play in solving the crisis.
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Myanmar stands accused of ethnic cleansing in Rakhine State, from where more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since August.
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Then he turned to President Clinton and demanded that he stop the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, most of whose victims were Muslims.
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" A spokesman for UK Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday the violence inside Rakhine State against Rohingyas looked like "ethnic cleansing.
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It's been created by Burma's military and it looks like ethnic cleansing," the spokesman said, using the traditional name for the country."
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Brutality by security forces and Buddhists against Rohingya has been called "ethnic cleansing" by the United Nations, though the government denies it.
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"It is an ethnic cleansing," said 50-year-old Khatun, who like her son is a member of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority.
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Activists have pointed out many countries buying China's weapons have notorious human rights records, including political repression, mass corruption and ethnic cleansing.
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The regime's ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity have only intensified in their viciousness and cruelty as the war has dragged on.
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Many Muslim leaders in attendance, like Recep Tayyip Erdogan, did highlight the plight of the Rohingya suffering an ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
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Human rights groups say the violence that erupted in 2012 and continued into 2013 amounted to ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
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Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace laureate, has been condemned globally for the Myanmar military's ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims.
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The pattern of the violence was stark and offered the clearest indication that ethnic cleansing had been the motive behind the massacres.
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Authorities in mainly Buddhist Myanmar deny carrying out large scale human rights abuses, which the United Nations has described as ethnic cleansing.
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" - Human Rights Watch said the detentions appeared to be "aimed at stopping independent reporting of the ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya.
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This may have contributed to violence in Sri Lanka and Myanmar, where posts encouraging ethnic cleansing were routinely allowed to stay up.
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The violent expulsion of the Rohingya from Rakhine has been condemned as ethnic cleansing by the United States and the United Nations.
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The United Nations has described the Myanmar military operations in the northern part of Rakhine as a classic case of ethnic cleansing.
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The military's ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic group, is popular, as are social controls against journalists and minorities.
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It is at the root of slavery and Jim Crow, the Holocaust, the genocide in Rwanda and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans.
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The session comes against a backdrop of global calamities like climate change, wars in Syria and Yemen and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
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The person most responsible for the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya — and who has the power to stop it — is Senior Gen.
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Several Bosnian Serbs have been prosecuted for their roles in the mass killings, part of a campaign of so-called ethnic cleansing.
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"There will be ethnic cleansing of the Kurdish people from Syria, and the American administration will be responsible for it," he said.
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I have called what Bloomberg did a public policy form of ethnic cleansing of New York, and I stand by that characterization.
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Go deeper: U.S. joins UN urging Iraq to call early elections Exclusive: Iraq president reveals Trump fears; warns of war, ethnic cleansing
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Hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya have fled Myanmar following a military crackdown that the United Nations has described as ethnic cleansing.
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Dehumanization of this type also plagues Myanmar, where the military has undertaken large-scale ethnic cleansing of the majority-Muslim Rohingya people.
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Not one has resulted in any meaningful soul-searching by the military for actions that the United States has deemed ethnic cleansing.
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Mr Netanyahu did not mention Mr Trump directly when he condemned Turkey's attack and warned against "the ethnic cleansing of the Kurds".
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When it became so sectarian, when it became ethnic cleansing, I could no longer think about the dream of rebuilding the country.
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Since then, nearly 2 million people have fled fighting that the United Nations has said amounts in some areas to ethnic cleansing.
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Soldiers are accused of mass killings, rape, and arson in a campaign the U.N. has called a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing".
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Terms like ethnic cleansing and "mass rape as a weapon to destroy lives," notions once confined to experts, are now widely used.
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Russia's ambassador to Myanmar criticized the U.S. stance, saying that using the term "ethnic cleansing" was unhelpful and could aggravate the situation.
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The only historical parallels are dark chapters in democratic history, like Japanese internment, or authoritarian states that have embarked on ethnic cleansing campaigns.
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Myanmar denies ethnic cleansing and has said its operations in Rakhine were a legitimate response to attacks on security forces by Rohingya insurgents.
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There was the massive ethnic cleansing of Native Americans — such as the Trail of Tears — from the country's founding through the 2265th century.
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WASHINGTON – Ethnic cleansing targeting Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar has not stopped despite growing condemnation from the international community, the Trump administration said Tuesday.
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The Myanmar military&aposs actions against the Rohingya have come under harsh criticism internationally, including charges that it was carrying out ethnic cleansing.
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Human rights groups and some Arabs in Syria's north have accused the YPG of kidnapping, torture and ethnic cleansing against non-Kurdish groups.
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He used content about Myanmar (Burma) and Sri Lanka as examples due to the histories of religiously based ethnic cleansing in both countries.
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The Shia militias that are allied with the Iraqi military have been credibly accused of ethnic cleansing and other violence directed at civilians.
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But the Kurds are busy resisting further Turkish advances that they fear could amount to the ethnic cleansing of Kurds from their homeland.
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" In a statement, Omar responded to the outcry, saying: "I believe accountability for human rights violations—especially ethnic cleansing and genocide is paramount.
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The fighting grew so ugly with a Serb-sponsored campaign of ethnic cleansing that NATO eventually intervened on the Albanians' behalf in 1999.
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Those in flight accuse security forces of arson, killings and rape in what the United Nations calls a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.
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"The fact that only one particular ethnicity is being driven out is by definition ethnic cleansing," Malaysia's foreign ministry said in a statement.
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Ethnic cleansing by ISIS has displaced, killed and enslaved hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Yazidis, members of an ancient ethnic and religious minority.
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The crackdown on the Rohingya in northwestern Rakhine State, which the United Nations denounced as "ethnic cleansing" by the military, has soured relations.
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The United Nations has described as ethnic cleansing a sweeping government offensive in the north of Rakhine State in response to those attacks.
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Speaking to the BBC, Suu Kyi said "ethnic cleansing is too strong an expression to use for what's happening" in northern Rakhine State.
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The actions of Myanmar's armed forces are a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing," UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said Monday.
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During the Kosovo war, he was serving as propaganda chief for Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia's leader in the days of war and ethnic cleansing.
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Activists sought to reclaim the Melungeons' identity from vilification; an influential book cast them as victims of "an untold story of ethnic cleansing".
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Suu Kyi has denied some of the more severe allegations made by rights organizations, including that ethnic cleansing is occurring in the region.
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The shine came off Aung San Suu Kyi's leadership over her silence concerning the ethnic cleansing of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims by the army.
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The army's violent campaign of retribution has been described by the UN's top human-rights official as a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing".
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On Tuesday, Francis didn't specifically address allegations of ethnic cleansing, but said religion has an important role to play in solving the crisis.
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Then, of course, there is the invasion and occupation of northeastern Syria and its killing and ethnic cleansing of the Kurdish population there.
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"The term 'ethnic cleansing' is not defined in the context of either international law or domestic law," a senior State Department official cautioned.
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Alternatively, for those bent on ethnic cleansing, it can easily be programmed to kill only people with a certain skin color or ethnicity.
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" Amnesty International has accused Myanmar's military of deliberately torching Muslim-minority Rohingya villages near the Bangladesh border in a campaign of "ethnic cleansing.
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The report blamed Rohingya militants for the violence that has consumed the region since August, which has been widely described as ethnic cleansing.
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Salvini's comments drew an immediate barrage of criticism, with the center-left Democratic Party (PD) saying his call revived memories of "ethnic cleansing".
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Even the European Court of Human Rights in its ruling from 2015 confirmed the facts of occupation and ethnic cleansing of Azerbaijan's territory.
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A U.N. report in February said security forces instigated a campaign that "very likely" amounted to crimes against humanity and possibly ethnic cleansing.
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But many believed the situation in Myanmar, which the United States and the United Nations have called ethnic cleansing, cried out for condemnation.
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The six former high-level politicians and defense officials were convicted in 2013 of participating in an "ethnic cleansing" campaign against Bosnian Muslims.
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That has sparked fears of "ethnic cleansing": that Hindus will flock to the region to push out the Muslims once and for all.
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They also buttress the Myanmar government's contention that what is happening is not ethnic cleansing, as the international community suggests, but foreign trickery.
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The campaign against the Rohingya, which began in late August, has been called "ethnic cleansing" by the United States and the United Nations.
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CreditCreditTomas Munita for The New York Times SOUTHEAST BANGLADESH, NEAR THE MYANMAR BORDER — "Ethnic cleansing" and even "genocide" are antiseptic and abstract terms.
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The Rohingya exodus has produced the world's biggest refugee camp, the result of "ethnic cleansing" with "genocidal intent," according to the United Nations.
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The violence has been condemned by the international community, and on Monday, the U.N. Security Council is scheduled to discuss the ethnic cleansing.
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The United Nations has blamed Facebook for the dissemination of hate speech against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar that resulted in their ethnic cleansing.
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The U.N. has said the expulsion of the Rohingya, by the Myanmar authorities and allied mobs employing brutal violence, amounts to ethnic cleansing.
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The principle serves as the basis for a state to protect its populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
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Denigrating Islam, and warning of an "invasion" that threatened Italians with "ethnic cleansing," he vowed to bar boats bringing migrants from North Africa.
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In the past month, 420,000 Rohingya have fled into neighboring Bangladesh to avoid what the U.N. human rights chief has called ethnic cleansing.
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"This is like trying to generate sympathy for the ethnic cleansing of Germans in the wake of the Second World War," Ollivant says.
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The discovery of the previously unreported graves provides further evidence of a campaign of ethnic cleansing during last year's violence in Rakhine State.
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A racist, anti-immigration narrative is leading to the attempted ethnic cleansing of marginalized people, hiding behind the language of 'rescuing vulnerable people.
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Myanmar national security adviser Thaung Tun said at the United Nations on Thursday there was no ethnic cleansing or genocide happening in Myanmar.
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The United States has accused the military of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya, a Muslim minority who are widely reviled in Buddhist-majority Myanmar.
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In November, the United States declared that violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar&aposs Rakhine state constituted ethnic cleansing, and the U.S. imposed sanctions.
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The government of Myanmar, a majority Buddhist country where the roughly one million Muslim Rohingya are marginalized, has repeatedly rejected charges of "ethnic cleansing".
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The United Nations and aid agencies have described the crackdown on the Rohingya as "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing", an accusation Myanmar rejects.
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In March, the U.N. said that no other conclusion could be drawn but that the actions of the Myanmar military amounted to ethnic cleansing.
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Ankara, which accuses the YPG of "ethnic cleansing" in northern Syria, has demanded that Kurdish fighters return to the east of the Euphrates river.
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Ethnic cleansing and genocide often use the cover of war to achieve their long-term objectives, and civilians understand that threat more than anyone.
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And we—well, we spent hours debating whether or not it was OK to punch people who openly advocate for ethnic cleansing (it is).
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The U.N. human rights investigators presented the testimonies on Friday, saying increasingly brutal attacks on women are an integral part of spreading ethnic cleansing.
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"Today, millions of people stand opposed to the Israeli government's policies of oppression, ethnic cleansing, human rights violations, occupation, and apartheid," the letter read.
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" NIKOLAY A. LISTOPADOV, Russian ambassador to Myanmar "There are not reliable proofs, evidence to make such a condemnation, genocide and ethnic cleansing, no evidence.
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But an agreement would also cement "ethnic cleansing", said Father Sava Janjic of the 14th century Serbian Orthodox Church monastery Visoki Decani in Kosovo.
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Charlottesville, Virginia, police arrested a 17-year-old boy Friday morning in connection with online threats of "ethnic cleansing" against a local high school.
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In Myanmar, where Facebook is the main source of news for many, it has deepened the hatred of the Rohingya, victims of ethnic cleansing.
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Alt-right leader Richard Spencer, for example, has said he wants a "peaceful ethnic cleansing" of America — an obviously absurd and extremely hateful proposition.
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During their conversation, Zuckerberg mentioned a situation where Facebook had prevented messages on Facebook Messenger about ethnic cleansing in Myanmar from successfully going through.
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The government of Myanmar, a majority Buddhist country where the roughly one million Muslim Rohingya are marginalized, has repeatedly rejected charges of "ethnic cleansing".
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Northern Syria's Kurdish authorities may be more benign than their enemies, but they have also been accused of human rights violations and ethnic cleansing.
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" Spencer has also called for "a new society, an ethno-state that would be a gathering point for all Europeans," and "peaceful ethnic cleansing.
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Rights group Amnesty International said evidence pointed to a "mass-scale scorched-earth campaign" across the north of Rakhine that was unmistakably ethnic cleansing.
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The Rohingya are fleeing a campaign of indiscriminate violence by Myanmar's military, whose tactics are being widely condemned as a form of ethnic cleansing.
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The convention covered only Europeans who had been displaced before 1951, including millions during the war and many more in post-war ethnic cleansing.
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The UN's human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, however, has described the operation as appearing to be a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing."
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Lawmakers and human rights advocates have called for Tillerson to act on the recommendation of the State Department and declare the situation ethnic cleansing.
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For successive governments, condemnation of the events of 1915, whether as genocide, a war crime or ethnic cleansing, has been out of the question.
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Is Obama prepared to betray Israel by supporting a policy of ethnic cleansing to create a Jew-free Palestinian state bent on Israel's destruction?
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And on Monday, United Nations investigators revealed that Facebook has played a "determining role" in the ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in Myanmar.
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Abuses by Seleka fueled the rise of Christian militias - some including soldiers from Bozize's army - that launched ethnic cleansing-style reprisals against Muslim civilians.
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It's unclear how many refugees actually would want to return after fleeing what the United States and United Nations have described as ethnic cleansing.
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The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, in his greeting late Sunday for Eid al-Adha, the Muslim holiday, accused Israel of its own ethnic cleansing.
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"My college tour began after the victory by Donald Trump," Richard Spencer, a proponent of "peaceful ethnic cleansing," said in a recent YouTube video.
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The UN and the United States say they believe the violence against the Rohingya constitutes ethnic cleansing, a charge denied by the Myanmar government.
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UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Monday described what was happening in Rakhine state as a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing."
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"A year ago, following deadly militant attacks, security forces responded by launching abhorrent ethnic cleansing of ethnic #Rohingya in Burma," Pompeo tweeted Sunday morning.
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The UN and the US say they believe the violence against the Rohingya, which are members of a minority ethnic group, constitutes ethnic cleansing.
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Maung Maung Soe became the first Myanmar military officer subject to American sanctions because of his links to the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya.
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As evidence piles up of ethnic cleansing so brutal it could well qualify as genocide, truth is the last thing the government wants known.
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Our videographer takes us inside a camp in Bangladesh for Rohingya Muslims who fled what U.N. officials have called "textbook" ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
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"The situation seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing," he said in a keynote address before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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The United Nations and international rights groups have laid out evidence of an ethnic cleansing campaign across the northern part of the state, Rakhine.
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Min Aung Hlaing has led the military campaign to drive out Rohingya Muslims, an effort that the U.S. has declared to be ethnic cleansing.
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In 2001, he said, he took part in a brutal ethnic cleansing of Indonesians who had moved in from the nearby island of Madura.
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As NATO bombs fell, Serbian forces opened a campaign of ethnic cleansing that drove almost a million Kosovar Albanians, predominantly Muslims, from their homes.
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Burmese military officials were behind a systematic campaign on Facebook to incite ethnic cleansing in the country, according to an investigation by the NYT.
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In a speech, Aung San Suu Kyi, the country's de facto leader, refused to condemn the military, which has been accused of ethnic cleansing.
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the country's de facto leader, refused in a speech on Monday to criticize security forces accused of ethnic cleansing.
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The military and Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi have generally denied allegations of ethnic cleansing or a campaign of targeted violence against the Rohingya.
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A no-fly zone, an arms embargo and a political solution to the Kurdish question are essential to protect the Kurds from ethnic cleansing.
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The optional course draws links between Portugal's colonial slave trade and modern slavery, as well as covering topics such as ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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The violence had the hallmarks of Rwanda's 1994 genocide as well as ethnic cleansing in Sudan's western Darfur region, Bosnia and Kosovo, it said.
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Critics say the pullout green-lights a Turkish military assault on the Kurds, who Turkey views as terrorists, raising fears of potential ethnic cleansing.
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Such African emirates might bring order, but also bloodshed, ethnic cleansing, terrorism and cruelty of the sort exhibited by ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
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A lot of white people don't have a history of ethnic cleansing, a family line that's been disrupted by government and war and death.
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The bulk of that population are 740,000 Rohingya Muslims who fled a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing by the Myanmar military from August 2017.
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The United States, Britain, United Nations and others described the operation as ethnic cleansing of the minority mainly Muslim Rohingya, a charge Myanmar denies.
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The United Nations has denounced the Myanmar military offensive as ethnic cleansing but Myanmar insists its forces are fighting "terrorists" who have killed civilians.
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Analysts disagree about whether it's an organized campaign of ethnic cleansing, but the effect has been quite clear: Diyala has been depopulated of Sunnis.
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"The violence has been characterized by many as ethnic cleansing," Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Patrick Murphy said in a press briefing on Tuesday.
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"An unequivocal statement [about ethnic cleansing] from Secretary Tillerson would centralize and elevate the concern," explained Sarah Margon, Washington director of Human Rights Watch.
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First-hand accounts of extrajudicial killings, ethnic cleansing, and the targeting of civilians by armies can disappear with little warning, sometimes before investigators notice.
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U.N. experts say the conflict, which also has roots in control of South Sudan's oil wealth, amounts to ethnic cleansing and risks escalating to genocide.
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In November, the United States declared that violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar&aposs Rakhine state constituted ethnic cleansing, and the U.S. later imposed sanctions.
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As a result, the site is spreading disinformation and propaganda, building much of the furor behind the ethnic cleansing of the country's Rohingya Muslim minority.
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In October, it also banned a number of other pages found to be involved in spreading propaganda and misinformation in support of the ethnic cleansing.
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The plight of the Rohingya people of Myanmar (Burma) has been equated to a "textbook example" of ethnic cleansing by the UN Human Rights Council.
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Read: A slaughter in silence: How a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign in DRC was made worse by Trump's "America First" policies and the world's neglect.
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In August, Facebook removed pages and groups belonging to military officials who were using the platform to incite violence and ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims.
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"We are witnessing ethnic cleansing in Syria by Turkey, the destruction of a reliable ally in the Kurds, and the reemergence of ISIS," he said.
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It would, argued an op-ed in the New York Times, be both "a peaceful form of ethnic cleansing" and "the right thing to do".
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He pointed to a 2002 video game called "Ethnic Cleansing, " a shooter game where the player assumes the role of a skinhead seeking minority targets.
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U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein has described the army's crackdown in Rakhine state as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.
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Mindy Kaling, Aziz Ansari, Riz Ahmed and many others have signed an open letter condemning the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya going on in Myanmar.
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Tillerson, who last month declared the violence against the Rohingya to be "ethnic cleansing," has said Washington was considering "targeted sanctions" against those deemed responsible.
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"We have confirmed from the start of the (Turkish) invasion that we will study all options that could spare our people ethnic cleansing," he said.
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Senior State Department official last week said Ankara should avoid any "disproportionate and inhumane" actions in northeast Syria, including ethnic cleansing and firing at civilians.
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Since the ethnic cleansing of the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia, Balkan states have been particularly sensitive to the risks of ethnic and religious conflict.
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She has repeatedly denied accusations of human rights abuses against the Rohingya, and in April denied to the BBC that ethnic cleansing was taking place.
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Many of the region's Kurdish residents oppose the Turkish invasion and the patrols, which they say amount to ethnic cleansing of Kurdish-populated border areas.
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In the 1990s, political upheavals in the countries that emerged from Yugoslavia led to armed conflict and ethnic cleansing campaigns targeting Muslims in the Balkans.
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" Earlier this week, UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein described the actions of Myanmar's armed forces as a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing.
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They are escaping the Assad regime's systematic use of chemical weapons, ethnic cleansing, torture and indiscriminate attacks against civilian targets, like hospitals and market places.
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"There are international organizations that accuse Myanmar with the terms 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' without evidence," Mr. Zaw Htay added, naming Fortify Rights among them.
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Along with other ethnic Albanian staff she lost her job in the 1990s, when Serbia's former dictator, Slobodan Milosevic, began a program of ethnic cleansing.
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Xenophobia and forms of religious fundamentalism, for instance, that have driven ethnic cleansing and genocidal progroms throughout history, are based on the fallacy of purity.
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The United States has accused the government of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya, a Muslim minority who are widely reviled in this majority-Buddhist country.
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There was a lot of stories about misinformation in Myanmar on Facebook leading to all of the problems we've seen in the ethnic cleansing there.
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Something bad happens of increasingly severe consequence on Facebook (say, Russian election meddling in the United States, or the incitement of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar).
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The U.S. set down red lines for the offensive Thursday that would trigger economic sanctions, including ethnic cleansing and indiscriminate fire directed at civilian populations.
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The army operation has forced more than half a million people to flee to Bangladesh, in what the United Nations has denounced as ethnic cleansing.
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The Myanmar military stands accused by the U.N. of having conducted a brutal campaign of killings, mass rape, arson and ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya.
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Activists in Myanmar say Facebook has been removing their posts documenting ethnic cleansing of Rohingya people and censoring their accounts, according to The Daily Beast.
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She has ignored irrefutable evidence of ethnic cleansing, and in so doing, has emboldened Myanmar's military to persist in committing crimes against humanity with impunity.
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" As the president of this movement, Spencer has called for "peaceful ethnic cleansing," and views immigration as "a kind of proxy war against White Americans.
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He stands accused of conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing in the country's Darfur region, and was nearly arrested in 2015 while visiting South Africa.
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A major break for the pair appears to have been the detention of two Reuters journalists who were investigating allegations of ethnic cleansing in Rakhine.
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I needed to stay in Ituri province because I had stumbled upon an ethnic cleansing campaign and I was watching it unfold in real-time.
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Myanmar's government has repeatedly denied any campaign took place against the Rohingya, despite mounting evidence supporting claims by the U.N. that ethnic cleansing took place.
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Hatred in Myanmar has led to what the United Nations described as "ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims, and social media has inflamed some of that vitriol.
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Zuckerberg has faced increased scrutiny over content moderation as horrific tragedies like the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar have been fueled by the organizational potential of Facebook.
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The user threatened to carry out an "ethnic cleansing" at the school on Thursday and urged all the white students at the school to stay home.
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The show becomes strangely focused on nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, ignoring the mass Nazi ethnic cleansing and political repression the first season hinted at.
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As winner, Aung San Suu Kyi is also inheriting the worst ethnic cleansing you've never heard of, Myanmar's destruction of a Muslim minority called the Rohingya.
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The crackdown by the armed forces in Myanmar against theRohingya community was described by the UN's human-rights chief as a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing".
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Association with data breaches, election meddling, and ethnic cleansing have made tech giants like Facebook a popular target for criticism from regulators, the press, and politicians.
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Last week, the United States urged the U.N Security Council to hold Myanmar's military accountable for what it said was the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims.
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Other world powers and the United Nations called Myanmar's campaign against the Rohingya population "ethnic cleansing" well before the United States did so in late November.
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In the past, the government has denied allegations of ethnic cleansing in Rakhine and said the security forces mounted legitimate counter-insurgency operations against Rohingya militants.
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They are carrying out a new form of ethnic cleansing, with Shiites expelling Sunnis and making it impossible for them to return to their destroyed homes.
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American officials were furious when they saw a recent video of Netanyahu describing opposition to Israeli settlements in the West Bank as "ethnic cleansing" of Jews.
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Is buying a bigot or an abuser's new album or going to see them play a show the same as participating in wide-scale ethnic cleansing?
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After countless bloody bouts of ethnic cleansing, the brutal massacre of 7,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica over a few days finally tipped the balance.
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Killings, arson and rape carried out by troops and ethnic Rakhine Buddhist mobs since then amount to ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya, the United Nations says.
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Amnesty found that several commanders who were involved in ethnic cleansing were subsequently promoted, which says a lot about how the Myanmar military views these operations.
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The Trump administration leveled sanctions against four Myanmar commanders and two army units earlier this month for what it called the "ethnic cleansing" of the Rohingya.
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Thousands were killed in the ensuing ethnic cleansing which led to the de facto partition of Central African Republic into a Muslim north and Christian south.
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In a 2013 television interview with BBC News, she disputed the characterization of the violence being perpetrated against the Rohingya at the time as ethnic cleansing.
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Suu Kyi has been roundly criticized in the international community for failing to condemn the alleged ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in the country's Rakhine State.
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New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch this month accused Myanmar security forces of committing widespread rape as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
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A 17-year-old has pleaded guilty to making a racist "ethnic cleansing" threat that closed Charlottesville City Schools last week, according to The Associated Press.
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With over 22019 million Uyghurs confined to "re-education camps" under deplorable conditions, and reports of mass disappearances, the situation may devolve into an ethnic cleansing.
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United Nations officials say Myanmar's military should be investigated for crimes against humanity and potential genocide, and the Trump administration recently accused Myanmar of ethnic cleansing.
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He also called for an end to Myanmar's military campaign that has driven some 400,000 Rohingya Muslims from the country, describing their plight as ethnic cleansing.
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During weeks of violence that the United Nations has called "ethnic cleansing," soldiers killed, raped, and arrested thousands of Rohingya, survivors and human rights groups said.
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It wasn't until we started the 1999 bombing of Serbia, ostensibly to stop the Serbs in power from ethnic cleansing, that my mind began to change.
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In Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi visited the region where her government's troops are accused of carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims.
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Among the Balkan combatants — Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Croatia — millions of people were displaced, many of them forced from their homes in campaigns of ethnic cleansing.
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We know from history that acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing and terrorism have been preceded by periods in which political and social movements employed such rhetoric.
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But Croatia, trials at the tribunal have shown, also orchestrated brutal ethnic cleansing to seize Bosnian lands once the Yugoslav federation began to disintegrate in 1991.
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Myanmar officials have previously denied accusations of ethnic cleansing and have asserted that outside depictions of the crisis are distorted or fabricated by pro-Rohingya sympathizers.
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Like many people in Myanmar, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi has steadfastly denied reports of ethnic cleansing, going so far as to call them fake news.
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Radovan Karadzic, one of Mr. Milosevic's proxies in Bosnia, conducted a campaign of "ethnic cleansing," which meant rape and murder, mass expulsions, concentration camps and siege.
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He's also proposed a peace plan for ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, which is home to a special economic zone being built by a China-led consortium.
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" Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled violence in their villages in Myanmar in what the UN has deemed "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.
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Myanmar has rejected accusations of ethnic cleansing, blaming most of the violence and torching of Rohingya villages on the Rohingya insurgents who attacked the security forces.
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Last week, public schools in Charlottesville, Va., were shut down for two days after threats of an "ethnic cleansing" massacre were posted to 4chan and 8chan.
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It helps connect the efforts of radical Buddhist monks in Myanmar, who now have much more potent tools for spreading incitement to ethnic cleansing—fueling the fastest-
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A U.N. tribunal convicted Mladic of genocide and crimes against humanity for orchestrating massacres and ethnic cleansing during Bosnia's war and sentenced him to life in prison.
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They were picked out of a crowd by paramilitary forces sent to secure the village, in the midst of what the UN has described as ethnic cleansing.
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Their case comes amid heavy international criticism of both Suu Kyi and Myanmar's powerful military over what the UN has termed the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims.
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Strong crypto is not an especially good defense against street police brutality, immigration bans, bans on military service, and ethnic cleansing in the form of mass deportations.
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In Northern Syria, PYD/YPG, the PKK's Syrian franchise, has been subjecting native Arab and Turkmen communities and rival Kurdish groups to forced migration and ethnic cleansing.
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The military in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, also known as Burma, has denied accusations of ethnic cleansing and says its actions were part of a fight against terrorism.
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These people -- most of whom are men -- are accused of crimes such as mass murder in El Salvador; torture and murder in Chile; ethnic cleansing in Somalia.
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The military in Myanmar, where Buddhism is the main religion, has denied accusations of ethnic cleansing and says its actions were part of a fight against terrorism.
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The Prijedor area saw some of the most brutal and violent ethnic cleansing attacks in 1992 by the Bosnian Serb police and army against Bosniaks and Croats.
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Others have alluded to a more sinister attempt at ethnic cleansing of the charts, as disco's origins were found predominantly in the Black, Latino, and gay communities.
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The United Nations has said the military response to the insurgent attacks is ethnic cleansing aimed at pushing the Rohingya Muslim community out of Buddhist-majority Myanmar.
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The United Nations has denounced the Myanmar military offensive as ethnic cleansing but Myanmar insists its forces are fighting "terrorists" who have killed civilians and burnt villages.
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In addition, Turkey should absorb the full brunt of international opprobrium for the ethnic cleansing it has perpetrated and demographic change it is yet threatening to do.
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Washington has called the army response "ethnic cleansing" - a charge Myanmar denies, saying its security forces have been waging a legitimate counter-insurgency operation against "Bengali terrorists".
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While there, he is expected to assess whether the U.S. should define the Myanmar's military attacks as what they clearly are – ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people.
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As the people that survived the Genocide in Ottoman Turkey and passed through the ethnic cleansing in Azerbaijan, Armenians are able to distinguish the people and policy.
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Representatives of the United Nations and the European Union have described the situation as "ethnic cleansing," an assessment echoed by British Prime Minister Theresa May this week.
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About 700,000 mostly Muslim Rohingya have fled largely Buddhist Myanmar to Bangladesh after a military crackdown in August 2017 that the United Nations has called ethnic cleansing.
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Last year, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya were forced across the border into Bangladesh as part of a targeted attack labeled by the UN as ethnic cleansing.
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The Trump administration imposed sanctions on top Myanmar military and police commanders in response to what it called Myanmar's "ethnic cleansing" of the Rohingya earlier this month.
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It's also facing criticism for allowing its platform to be used to organize violence, including in Myanmar, where ethnic cleansing was fanned by the use of Facebook.
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Myanmar's military was behind a disinformation effort on Facebook that helped foment ethnic cleansing against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority, according to a New York Times investigation.
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Leading U.N. officials said in March they believed Myanmar was attempting to cover up evidence of its abuses, and that its campaign of ethnic cleansing was continuing.
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Of course, when you propose ethnic cleansing in any form in America, you're probably going to be called a Nazi — and maybe even attract some actual Nazis.
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They could care less that he's basically advocating ethnic cleansing in the United States by kicking out 11 million people and building a wall and banning Muslims.
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The policy is global, but so far it is operating only in Myanmar and Sri Lanka, where Facebook posts have been linked to ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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And on Friday, the Treasury Department announced economic sanctions against Burmese security forces for what American officials described as their role in "ethnic cleansing" against Rohingya Muslims.
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But by the time nationalist leaders threw the world into two cataclysms of destruction and ethnic cleansing, the emotional power of the nation had been firmly established.
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In 21979, she was among the first human rights workers to travel to the Bangladesh-Myanmar border and document the Myanmar military's ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims.
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The situation between 1948 and 1967 was not the norm, but an aberrant blip on the timeline of Judaism's holiest city and a result of ethnic cleansing.
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Discrimination and ethnic cleansing reduced the population of non-Muslims in Pakistan from about 30 percent at its creation in 1947 to less than 5 percent now.
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This is because it emerges from the Muslim disavowal of caste and refusal to acknowledge Pakistan's ethnic cleansing of the Hindus who are seen to represent it.
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In addition to physical violence, Myanmar military personnel turned Facebook into a tool for ethnic cleansing to target the Rohingya, according to former officials and other experts.
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He experienced "some of the worst ethnic cleansing" as a child, according to Ms. Shumard, and in 1922, escaped with his family on foot to Aleppo, Syria.
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Nothing in the United Nations conventions implies that military expediency can justify the removal, whether by ethnic cleansing, killing or both, of populations whose presence is inconvenient.
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But the report fails to look closely at how Facebook employees missed a crescendo of posts and misinformation that helped to fuel modern ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
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Many freelance jade miners, like Mr. Thein Maung, are ethnic Rakhine Buddhists from far-western Rakhine State, the site of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
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TWO YEARS ago ethnic cleansing by the army forced 700,000 Muslim Rohingyas to flee Rakhine state, in western Myanmar, and seek sanctuary across the border in Bangladesh.
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Rather than condemning pogroms against the persecuted Muslim minority, she has dismissed accusations of ethnic cleansing and called, instead, for rule of law to solve any problem.
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Pompeo is mulling whether to call what happened a genocide, or to stick to the ethnic cleansing label that the U.S. has already placed on the case.
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" Far from spontaneous, the prosecutor said, the Serbian state security at first placed their operatives in positions in Bosnia and Croatia that were scheduled for "ethnic cleansing.
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He adopts a civilized tone to advance opinions once considered beyond the bounds of civilized debate, advocating ''peaceful ethnic cleansing,'' as if that were an actual thing.
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The post threatened an "ethnic cleansing" at the school the next day and allegedly encouraged white students to stay home from school, according to The Daily Progress.
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ISIS is also responsible for crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing directed at these same groups, and in some cases against Sunni Muslims, Kurds, and other minorities.
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The four-year civil war has split the country into a patchwork of fiefdoms, created Africa's biggest refugee crisis in two decades and led to ethnic cleansing.
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Myanmar's de-facto leader has since been the target of international condemnation over the alleged ethnic cleansing by her government of the country's Muslim minority Rohingya people.
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Mr. Guterres and his top human rights official have both described the killings and persecution of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.
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The mainly Arab rebels accuse the Syrian Kurdish militia of forcibly displacing Arabs from the villages in what they say is a deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing.
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Particularly in Myanmar, where Rohingya Muslims have been the target of ethnic cleansing by the country's Buddhist-led government, Facebook has been heavily criticized for inflaming violence.
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A top U.N. official in September described the military actions as a textbook case of "ethnic cleansing," but the United States until Wednesday had avoided the term.
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Last March, Secretary of State John Kerry declared that the ethnic cleansing of Christian, Yazidi, and Shia Muslim communities by ISIS forces amounts to nothing less than genocide.
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The U.N. says killings, arson and rape carried out by troops and ethnic Rakhine Buddhist mobs since then amount to a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya.
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I think that's a big value of this work — preserving history and memory, especially in the face of ethnic cleansing and erasure, is an act of political resistance.
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A more settled SEZ, supported by donors, would also be seen by some Rohingya as rewarding Myanmar's brutal army for its ethnic cleansing, handing them a clear victory.
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The Rohingya fled Myanmar to join others in neighboring Bangladesh to escape a military offensive the United Nations called "ethnic cleansing" of one of the most oppressed people.
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"Israel strongly condemns the Turkish invasion of the Kurdish areas in Syria and warns against the ethnic cleansing of the Kurds by Turkey and its proxies," he said.
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There have also been attacks on minority groups and ethnic cleansing, which is made easier by the fact that in most regions ethnicity is recorded on identity cards.
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Such a statement probably went down pretty well with the Trump supporters from the so-called alt-right movement, who have advocated white nationalist policies like ethnic cleansing.
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South Sudanese officials were not available to comment on the investigators' findings, but on Thursday, Kiir told Reuters that no ethnic cleansing was taking place in South Sudan.
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The attacks triggered a sweeping military counter-offensive by security forces in Buddhist-majority Myanmar which the U.N. rights agency said was a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing".
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Buddhist-majority Myanmar has rejected U.N. accusations of ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in response to coordinated attacks by Rohingya insurgents on the security forces on Aug. 25.
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WASHINGTON – U.S. lawmakers and human rights groups escalated pressure Friday on the Trump administration to impose sanctions against Myanmar&aposs military over alleged ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims.
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The former Senate Republican whip said he did not intend to imply he supported ethnic cleansing or that the U.S. gave permission to Turkey to attack the Kurds.
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We're gonna feel pretty dumb if our weird obsession with State Department email practices and relative disinterest in fraud, bribery and self-dealing ultimately leads to ethnic cleansing.
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What was once a way to connect with like-minded college students is today a global network facilitating age discrimination, political influence campaigns, and possibly even ethnic cleansing.
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On Thursday, New York-based Human Rights Watch accused Myanmar security forces of committing widespread rape against women and girls as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
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Myanmar dismisses accusations of ethnic cleansing, saying it has to tackle the insurgents, whom it accuses of setting fires and attacking civilians as well as the security forces.
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The United Nations said it had committed mass killings and gang rapes and burned villages in a campaign that may amount to crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing.
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Min Aung Hlaing did not mention the accusation of ethnic cleansing in his speech to business people, officials and some of the displaced, in Sittwe, the state capital.
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Daesh is also responsible for crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing directed against these same groups and in some cases also against Sunni Muslims, Kurds and other minorities.
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" And so ICE is "an apparatus that has a lot of people in it who are pretty committed to the idea of what I would call ethnic cleansing.
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If you call yourself a Zionist because your family fled to Israel from a Middle Eastern country as a means of survival, you are complicit in ethnic cleansing.
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Last month, the U.S. government imposed sanctions on three military commanders, a border guard and two military units for their involvement in "ethnic cleansing" against the Rohingya people.
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Massacres and ethnic cleansing on both sides ensued, killing more than 20,000 people and displacing about a million, mostly Azerbaijanis, before a cease-fire took hold in 1994.
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That came after militant attacks in August sparked a crackdown, led by security forces, in Rakhine state that the U.N. and United States have said constitutes ethnic cleansing.
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According to the Human Rights Watch, nearly 700,000 Rohingya refugees have fled the Rakhine State of Burma because of a military-led ethnic cleansing campaign since August 2017.
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Yet in the neighboring Palestinian-controlled territories, ethnic cleansing and persecution have reduced the Christian population from 15 percent of the population to less than 1.3 percent today.
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Attacks on security posts by Rohingya insurgents in Myanmar's Rakhine state triggered the crackdown that the United Nations, the United States, Britain and others describe as ethnic cleansing.
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Even as State Department officials announced their decision to call the violence "ethnic cleansing," they were careful not to attribute the violence directly to Myanmar's democratically elected leadership.
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"It included the focus on the war crimes facing Khan al-Ahmar, specifically the crimes of forceable displacement, ethnic cleansing and destruction of civilian property," Erekat told reporters.
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"Justice is desperately needed for the Rohingya population targeted by the Burmese military's campaign of ethnic cleansing," Param-Preet Singh, associate international justice director, said in a statement.
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South Sudan won independence from Sudan in 2011 following decades of brutal fighting marked by the mass abduction and enslavement of children, scorched earth ethnic cleansing and famines.
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The company has faced controversy in recent months over data privacy, reports of the platform being used for Russian propaganda and misinformation related to ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
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In 1992, the height of the ethnic cleansing campaign, close to 45,000 people were killed or missing, almost half of the 100,000 who died in the Bosnian war.
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Myanmar dismisses accusations of ethnic cleansing, saying it has to tackle the insurgents, whom it accuses of starting fires and attacking civilians as well as the security forces.
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The United Nations has accused the Myanmar government of ethnic cleansing; Myanmar says its operations in Rakhine were in response to attacks on security forces by Rohingya insurgents.
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MYIN HLUT, Myanmar — On the eve of the anniversary of a military-led ethnic-cleansing campaign against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, the nation's commander in chief, Sen. Gen.
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The top United Nations human rights official, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, said in September that Myanmar's military campaign was "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing" against Rohingya Muslims.
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More than 2 million Congolese fled their homes last year alone, close to three times the number of Rohingya made homeless by an ethnic cleansing campaign in Myanmar.
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"There is no ethnic cleansing or genocide in our country," said U Aung Tun Thet, the chief coordinator of the Myanmar government body dedicated to the Rohingya crisis.
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Every generation of campus activists embraces a worthy foreign-policy cause: Ending apartheid in South Africa; stopping ethnic cleansing in the Balkans; rescuing Darfur from starvation and genocide.
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"Israel will use next year's Eurovision to try to legitimize its occupation, ethnic cleansing and illegal annexation," Ali Abunimah, founder of the website Electronic Intifada, tweeted on Sunday.
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Red Star and Partizan remain major centers of Serbian ethnic nationalism—the same sentiment that led to civil war and ethnic cleansing in the region in the 23s.
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In Bosnia and Herzegovina, where citizens live with the trauma of ethnic cleansing, prisoners can vote unless their crimes pertain to the Bosnian War of the early 1990s.
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Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, accused Myanmar in September of carrying out "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing" against Rohingya Muslims.
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When researchers and activists in Myanmar, India, Germany and elsewhere warned that Facebook had become an instrument of government propaganda and ethnic cleansing, the company largely ignored them.
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Once a symbol of resistance to military rule, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi is known today as an enabler of ethnic cleansing and a foe of press freedom.
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U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein has called the situation "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing", but he has not used the word genocide.
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Well over 600,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh to find shelter in the refugee camps, the living victims of what a top U.N. official has called "ethnic cleansing".
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In March 2018, Suu Kyi was stripped of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's prestigious Elie Wiesel Award as a result of her failure to acknowledge the ethnic cleansing.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday condemned Turkey's military incursion against a Kurdish militia in northeast Syria and cautioned about the possibility of ethnic cleansing.
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"Israel strongly condemns the Turkish invasion of the Kurdish areas in Syria and warns against the ethnic cleansing of the Kurds by Turkey and its proxies," Netanyahu wrote.
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Human rights experts have called it ethnic cleansing or genocide, and U.N. officials have said the nation's military generals should be tried for the gravest crimes against humanity.
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"I hesitate to use this expression, but it almost feels like there's a little ethnic cleansing going on in the United States right now," Insana said in reaction.
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He conducted a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Darfur, yet simultaneously made himself indispensable to Gulf states and the West through military campaigns and cooperation on counter-terrorism.
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Mr. al-Hussein has condemned the crackdown on the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, as a textbook case of ethnic cleansing and possibly even genocide.
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That crackdown has forced more than 0003,2000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh, in what the United Nations' human rights agency has called "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing".
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The term "ethnic cleansing" is not defined in international or U.S. law and does not inherently carry specific consequences, a second senior U.S. official said on the call.
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" - U.S. Republican Senator John McCain said on Twitter: "The charges against @Reuters reporters Wa Lone & Kyaw Soe Oo for exposing ethnic cleansing in #Burma are outrageous & politically motivated.
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His goal, ICTY prosecutors said, was ethnic cleansing - the forcible extermination or expulsion of Muslims, Croats and other non-Serbs to clear Bosnian lands for a "Greater Serbia".
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The question is whether he will receive — and abide by — an expected recommendation from his State Department to apply harsher language and call out Myanmar for ethnic cleansing.
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There was no ethnic cleansing or genocide in Myanmar, its national security adviser, Thaung Tun, said at the United Nations, adding that Myanmar had invited Guterres to visit.
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In Myanmar, for example, which has been hailed as a fashion success story, nestled among the reports of financial growth are harrowing reports of ethnic cleansing of Rohingya people.
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About 700,000 Rohingya have fled into neighboring Bangladesh since last August to escape what United Nations and U.S. officials have called an "ethnic cleansing" campaign by Myanmar&aposs government.
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But judges at the UN war crimes court at The Hague (ICTY) said Seselj bore no individual responsibility for the crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing that took place.
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Things it has "messed up" include aiding foreign actors in a propaganda campaign to interfere in the 2016 US election and being a conduit for ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
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A shaky peace deal was agreed a year ago, but it is frequently violated and on Thursday the U.N. said ethnic cleansing in the conflict could lead to genocide.
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In a subsequent crackdown described by U.N. and U.S. officials as "ethnic cleansing," Myanmar security forces have been accused of rape, killing, torture and the burning of Rohingya homes.
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The first came in a devastating Reuters investigation into how the company utterly failed to police hate speech in Myanmar, and how this fed the flames of ethnic cleansing.
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But it also acknowledges a major fear of the Kurds -- that Turkish-backed Syrian rebel groups might unleash a campaign of ethnic cleansing against them and other minority groups.
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For so many, he was that difference -- including at the dedication of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993 when he urged me to stop the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.
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Looking into the eyes of these girls, there's a resignation to a fate they wouldn't have chosen for themselves having just endured the horrors of an ethnic cleansing. —L.
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And indeed, when Facebook did finally take action and removed some posts documenting military activity in Rohingya villages, Rohingya activists accused it of erasing evidence of an ethnic cleansing.
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Details: Police arrested a 17-year-old in connection to the hostile statements, who allegedly posted intimidating remarks on "ethnic cleansing" on 4Chan, an anonymous message board, Buzzfeed reports.
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Where hipsters are relatively harmless, passive annoyances, here we had people championing for "peaceful ethnic cleansing," or worse, while rocking my unimpeachable, TV-ready cut for their evil machinations.
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In a 2016 episode of a podcast on the network, the hosts insisted that an ethnic cleansing to remove non-whites from the United States was their ultimate goal.
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Myanmar's leader, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who this year denied any ethnic cleansing had taken place in Rakhine, has expressed resistance to the UN probe.
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Mr. Seselj was charged with three counts of crimes against humanity and six of war crimes in the ethnic cleansing for his role in mobilizing and motivating his followers.
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They have spread grotesque accusations of "ethnic cleansing" by Kurdish forces, reports not supported by more measured analyses, for instance, those by the U.N. commission of inquiry on Syria.
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Previously, Myanmar's government has denied charges of ethnic cleansing, saying that the military took "full measures to avoid collateral damage and the harming of innocent civilians" in Rakhine State.
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" The US Holocaust Memorial Museum declared in early December that there was "compelling evidence that the Burmese military committed ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, and genocide against the Rohingya.
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The United Nations says killings, arson and rape carried out by troops and ethnic Rakhine Buddhist mobs since then amount to a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya.
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The United Nations has described the situation in Myanmar as a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing," and some observers have accused the army of overseeing genocide against the Rohingya.
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Refugees have reported killings, rape and arson on a large scale; some countries compared the situation to the widespread ethnic cleansing seen during the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
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Last month, the U.N.'s Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights said that the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya in Rakhine constituted a genocide and that the violence was continuing.
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The United Nations has denounced the violence during the past 10 weeks as a classic example of ethnic cleansing to drive the Rohingya Muslims out of Buddhist majority Myanmar.
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Today's BJP relies on a sectarian narrative inspired by M.S. Golwalkar, one of Hindutva's ideological architects, who wrote in admiration of Nazi ideas of race purity and ethnic cleansing.
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Earlier in August, the U.S. imposed sanctions on various Myanmar military and police commanders along with two army units for perpetrating the "ethnic cleansing" and abuse of Rohingya Muslims.
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In its campaign against Muslim Rohingyas, Myanmar's military used the social network for years as a tool for ethnic cleansing, according to former military officials, researchers and civilian officials.
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The British partitioned the country at the moment they relinquished it, birthing Pakistan, and setting off population transfers and ethnic cleansing that left more than one million people dead.
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"The word is politicized and monopolized by an Islamic idea," Father Cervellera said, adding that the military was carrying out ethnic cleansing of all the minorities in the region.
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In less than half a year, around 700,000 Rohingya escaped attacks in their home state, Rakhine, and what the international community has called ethnic cleansing by Myanmar's security forces.
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A user who claimed to be affiliated with Charlottesville High School promised an "ethnic cleansing in my school" and, using slurs, threatened to kill African-American and Hispanic people.
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Three years later, the next chapter of Serb ethnic cleansing began, this time in a corner of Serbia known as Kosovo, the vast majority of whose inhabitants were Albanians.
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On Tuesday, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Myanmar to stop the military campaign, which he said could destabilize the region, and had created a risk of ethnic cleansing.
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Echoes of the majoritarian rhetoric preceding the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya can be heard in India as four million, mostly Bengali-origin Muslims, have been effectively turned stateless.
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The denial of citizenship, loss of rights and continued hostility against the Rohingya in Myanmar eventually led to the brutal violence and ethnic cleansing of the past few years.
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But what happened in August, when the military and allied mobs began burning whole Rohingya villages, was so much worse that the United Nations is calling it ethnic cleansing.
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In 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya were forced across the border into Bangladesh as part of a targeted campaign of ethnic cleansing labeled by the UN as genocidal.
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More than 620,000 Rohingya, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority in Myanmar, have flooded into Bangladesh, escaping what the United States on Wednesday termed "ethnic cleansing" by Myanmar's security forces.
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Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, called the military campaign "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing" and a clear violation of international law.
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"There will be ethnic cleansing of the Kurdish people from Syria, and the American administration will be responsible for it," said Mr. Kobani, commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces.
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Still, in 1999, the United States participated in NATO's air war to stop the Serbian ethnic-cleansing campaign in Kosovo, even though the operation lacked a Security Council authorization.
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Just as importantly, however, we all understood that the ethnic cleansing campaign and the massive refugee crisis it created would have dire consequences for the Balkans, and, ultimately, Europe.
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Escaping what the United Nations has called "ethnic cleansing" in Myanmar's northwest state of Rakhine, thousands of Rohingya — a Muslim-majority ethnic group — have sought shelter in neighboring countries.
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More than 740,000 Rohingya refugees have fled the Rakhine State of Myanmar since August 2017, when a military-led ethnic cleansing campaign began, according to the Human Rights Watch.
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The United Nations described it as a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing," the military offensive that led to the exodus of Rohingya Muslims in the Myanmar province of Rakhine.
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That year, over several months, a Serbian-orchestrated ethnic-cleansing campaign drove the non-Serb population from large areas of territory amid a wave of killings and other atrocities.
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Kiir has denied there is any ethnic cleansing and South Sudan's ambassador at the council, Kuol Alor Kuol Arop, said his country saw no need for the special session.
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Ultimately, it was the U.S.-led NATO military intervention that stopped the genocide and ethnic cleansing against Bosnia's non-Serb population and got the parties to the negotiating table.
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An open letter signed by more than a dozen Nobel laureates warned of "ethnic cleansing" and criticized the government for the deaths of hundreds in the offensive in December.
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Myanmar's security forces have also orchestrated a campaign of what the United Nations calls ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims, a mostly stateless ethnic group, in far western Rakhine State.
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Then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson officially labeled the crisis an "ethnic cleansing" in November, but the international community has been slow to act on the escalating humanitarian disaster.
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Schools in Charlottesville, Virginia — the site of 2017's violent "Unite the Right" white nationalist rally — closed Thursday due to a threat of "ethnic cleansing" against Charlottesville High School.
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More than 600,000 Rohingya have escaped to Bangladesh after attacks by insurgents on Myanmar security forces in August triggered a military crackdown that the United Nations has called ethnic cleansing.
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The group's leader, Richard Spencer, head of the National Policy Institute, has reportedly called for "peaceful ethnic cleansing," with a view to bringing America back to its white, European roots.
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More than half a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since late August, to escape what the United Nations has branded ethnic cleansing by Myanmar's military.
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He has, after all, advocated "peaceful ethnic cleansing," held Martin Luther King, Jr. responsible for "White Dispossession," and called for a state just for people of European descent (except Jews).
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In Myanmar, Facebook admitted shortcomings — as it has elsewhere — after its policies were cited for exacerbating ethnic cleansing, and promised to reform its processes, including by hiring more content moderators.
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The military response to the insurgent attacks has driven 480,000 Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh and drawn U.N. accusations of ethnic cleansing by the army with the help of Buddhist vigilantes.
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"Malaysia also calls on the government of Myanmar to take all the necessary actions to address the alleged ethnic cleansing in the northern Rakhine State," it said in a statement.
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Facebook was recently accused by the U.N. of facilitating the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya because its platform was used to supercharge the spread of hate speech against the group.
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" He has also called for "peaceful ethnic cleansing" of nonwhite Americans, and has defined the alt-right as "about being a white person, being a European in the 21st century.
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The rebels and the Turkish government accuse the Kurdish militias of a campaign of ethnic cleansing of Arab-inhabited villages in a bid to carve a fiefdom in Syria's north.
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Presumably, this will give the flagship products plausible deniability when it comes to important public-facing qualities, like not exposing consumer data on an enormous scale or facilitating ethnic cleansing.
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Myanmar&aposs security forces have been accused of widespread human rights violations, including rape, murder, torture and the burning of Rohingya homes, that some critics charge amount to ethnic cleansing.
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He has also accused Turkey of ethnic cleansing in Kurdish areas occupied by the FSA, saying it has driven thousands of Kurds from their land in villages near the border.
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The new Republican Party of Steve Bannon, Trump's new White House chief of strategy, has embraced the logic of ethnic cleansing: round them up, jail them or kick them out.
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The United Nations, the US and the UK have accused the Myanmar military of ethnic cleansing, systematically driving the minority Muslim population from their homes through murder, rape and terror.
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However, the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Nations have all accused Myanmar of ethnic cleansing and the refugees share similar stories of killings, rape and torched villages.
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The situation in Myanmar has led to allegations of ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, who have fled Myanmar by the hundreds of thousands amid killings by the country's security forces.
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War crimes and crimes against humanity Since it took the world by surprise in the summer of 6900, ISIS has undoubtedly perpetrated crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing.
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" Two months earlier, just a few weeks after the violence erupted, UN Human Rights Chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said Myanmar's military operation was a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing.
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It was the year that Cambridge Analytica became a household name, and the year that social media was implicated not only in data misuse and election interference, but ethnic cleansing.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Sudan's president on Thursday denied allegations by the United Nations that ethnic cleansing in the country's conflict is so bad that the stage is set for genocide.
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The Karen, Kachin, Shan and Rohingya are victims of ethnic cleansing, and it is becoming clearer that the calculated way in which these groups have been targeted looks like genocide.
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Myanmar has rejected the accusations of ethnic cleansing, saying its security forces launched a counter-insurgency operation after Rohingya militants attacked 30 security posts in northern Rakhine on Aug. 25.
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The United Nations and United States have described the military's actions as ethnic cleansing, and rights groups have accused the security forces of atrocities, including mass rape, arson and killings.
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The ICC is discussing the legal basis for an investigation, the Guardian reports, as Myanmar is not a member state and has strongly denied any ethnic cleansing is taking place.
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Myanmar's military is facing widespread allegations that it is carrying out ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya and the United Nations has recommended that its top commanders be tried for genocide.
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The tribal Germanic idea of Heimat, or homeland, for instance, represented a bulwark against the ills of modernity before the Nazis notoriously used it as a pretext for ethnic cleansing.
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Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh to escape a campaign of execution, rape and arson, which the United Nations and the United States have termed ethnic cleansing.
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The teenager, who was not identified, is believed to have published a post on the web forum 4chan that threatened an "ethnic cleansing" at Charlottesville High School, the authorities said.
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In the late nineties, after he had already been accused of committing ethnic cleansing (but before the indictment was made public), Arkan came to own a soccer club, FK Obilic.
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Soon after the ethnic cleansing campaign began in 2017, he was pictured in the state news media on a tour of Northern Rakhine, the epicenter of the anti-Rohingya violence.
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"If evidence is there, then it cannot be forgiven," he said, even as ample testimony has led the United Nations and Western governments to call the military campaign ethnic cleansing.
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The United Nations says killings, arson and rape carried out by troops and ethnic Rakhine Buddhist mobs since late August amount to a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya.
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First, a United Nations panel recommended that Myanmar's top military commanders stand trial for genocide in relation to what it has called the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim minority.
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Our Southeast Asia bureau chief's latest report from Myanmar looks at how, a year after the military-led ethnic-cleansing campaign against the Rohingya, top officers have escaped any consequences.
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"Burmese security forces are committing ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya and disregarding the condemnation of world leaders," John Sifton, Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.
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Instead, they were from Myanmar military personnel who turned the social network into a tool for ethnic cleansing, according to former military officials, researchers and civilian officials in the country.
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As the war dragged on, the American government turned its eye to Diné lands in the Southwest, carrying out the forced removal and attempted ethnic cleansing of the Navajo Nation.
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Our journalists visited Rakhine State to see the government's plans for resettling the Rohingya Muslims, two years after a vicious ethnic cleansing campaign left hundreds of thousands of them displaced.
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Rakhine State was the main site of the brutal ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims carried out by Myanmar's military, including a campaign of murder, rape and the burning of villages.
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Sudershan Adhikari, 29, an owner of the Indian and Nepali restaurant Namaste, arrived in Lancaster in 2017 from Vermont, after fleeing the ethnic cleansing of Nepalis in Bhutan in 1990.
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It can build tools to censor the content a nation like China might wish to censor, and systems that suppress — or fail to suppress — content stoking ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
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"We are witnessing ethnic cleansing in Syria by Turkey, the destruction of a reliable ally in the Kurds, and the reemergence of ISIS (Islamic State)," Graham said in a statement.
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More than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar for Bangladesh two years ago to escape a vicious ethnic cleansing campaign, and governments from both countries have vowed to get them home.
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Before leaving his post as U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories in 2014, Falk said Israeli policies bore unacceptable characteristics of colonialism, apartheid and ethnic cleansing.
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"Israel strongly condemns the Turkish invasion of the Kurdish areas in Syria and warns against the ethnic cleansing of the Kurds by Turkey and its proxies," Netanyahu wrote on Twitter.
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Rohingya crisis will have long-term impact: Bangladesh will need to maintain refugee camps Ethnic cleansing in Myanmar will have major implications for the Rohingya, as well as neighboring countries.
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More than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar for Bangladesh two years ago to escape a vicious ethnic cleansing campaign, and governments from both countries have vowed to get them home.
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"A year ago, following deadly militant attacks, security forces responded by launching abhorrent ethnic cleansing of ethnic #Rohingya in Burma," Pompeo said on Twitter, using an alternative name for Myanmar.
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Myanmar rejects accusations of ethnic cleansing and has labeled the militants from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army who launched the attacks as terrorists, who have killed civilians and burnt villages.
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Despite such recognition, the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission that deployed to Darfur in 2008 ultimately failed to stem the regime's ethnic-cleansing program, which has included targeted rape.
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More than 1003,000 mainly Muslim Rohingya now live in the camps after the 2017 exodus, which followed an offensive by Myanmar's military that the United Nations has described as "ethnic cleansing".
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On the Iraqi front, they are mainly Kurdish and Shia -- a fact that raises fears among the population of both cities of potential ethnic cleansing and sectarian retaliations following ISIS' ousting.
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Prosecutors say Dragic, of Barberton in suburban Akron, made false statements on forms about his role in ethnic cleansing in Bosnia while applying for refugee status in the U.S. in 1998.
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Stung by international criticism and accusations of ethnic cleansing, Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has said Rohingya refugees who can prove they were resident will be accepted back.
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The term "ethnic cleansing" became associated with Bosnia, when Serb forces loyal to their leader, Slobodan Milosevic, tried to carve out a separate state by forcing out part of the population.
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The situation in Rakhine has worsened dramatically since then, with more than 400,000 Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh to escape a military counterinsurgency offensive the United Nations has described as "ethnic cleansing".
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But the money and loss of military life will be nothing if we see genocidal ethnic cleansing on our watch all over again, and Kurdish civilians are already paying the price.
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But given demographic trends in the US — birth patterns mean whites will likely be a minority by 2050 — mass ethnic cleansing is the only way to preserve a white Christian majority.
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The Turkish assault that followed Trump's abrupt withdrawal announcement forced hundreds of thousands of Kurds to flee their homes, prompting accusations of ethnic cleansing by Turkey and its allied Arab militias.
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Innocent people were and are being slaughtered, and there is a universal need to defend the victims of genocide and ethnic cleansing, not to stand with or defer to the murderers.
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She fled her village of Merula, in Myanmar's Rakhine state, as a government-backed attack on the minority Rohingya population escalated, in what the United Nations described as "textbook ethnic cleansing".
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The military and government led by Slobodan Milošević were guilty of ethnic cleansing — a term that doesn't do enough to describe the rape and murder of the region's minority Muslim population.
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The UN has called Myanmar's military response to ARSA a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing," and has documented reports of rape, murder, torture, and whole villages being burned to the ground.
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The United States has accused Myanmar of "ethnic cleansing" against the Rohingya, but China has stood by the country and Suu Kyi is due to travel to Beijing later this week.
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Now it's becoming increasingly clear that by leaning in and doing her job at Facebook, Sandberg helped build and protect a company that enabled anti-Semitism, disinformation campaigns, and ethnic cleansing.
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It was the first time the top generals directly addressed the mounting accusations of human rights abuses which, according to U.N. experts, may amount to crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing.
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On a practical level, they are an efficient way to clean up after a battle; they are also a form of disrespect and often a sign that ethnic cleansing has occurred.
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More than half a million Rohingya have fled from a Myanmar military crackdown in Rakhine State launched in late August that has been denounced by the United Nations as ethnic cleansing.
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Testimonies pointed to "a persecution on ethnic grounds which is similar to what has been, in other contexts, described as 'ethnic cleansing'," U.N. mission leader Linnea Arvidsson told a news briefing.
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"Malaysia also calls on the government of Myanmar to take all the necessary actions to address the alleged ethnic cleansing in the northern Rakhine State," the ministry said in a statement.
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The United Nations' top human rights official on Monday slammed Myanmar for conducting a "cruel military operation" against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, branding it "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing".
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In the suit, filed at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Gambia requested that the court condemn Myanmar for violating the Genocide Convention with its campaign of ethnic cleansing.
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It is not clear how Myanmar, which has always denied accusations of ethnic cleansing and genocide and argues that it was defending itself against an insurgency, will respond to the case.
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Milosevic, Karadzic, and Bosnian Serb militants under the leadership of Ratko Mladic used ethnic cleansing to cleave off as much of Bosnia as possible for the Serbian-dominated remains of Yugoslavia.
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And in the more distant past, there were outbursts that were deadlier than the Orlando shooting, whether in the category of terrorism, race riot, pogrom, ethnic cleansing, genocide or military action.
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This past week, my colleagues at The Times reported on the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, an ethnic minority in Myanmar that has been subjected to brutal violence and mass displacement.
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Myanmar rejects accusations of ethnic cleansing and has labeled the militants from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army who launched the initial attacks as terrorists who have killed civilians and burnt villages.
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Facebook is also facing hurdles abroad as it struggles to stop its platform from being used as a tool in facilitating ethnic cleansing in Myanmar and contributing to lynchings in India.
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It convicted him of driving hundreds of thousands of non-Serbs — Bosnian Muslims and Croats — out of villages claimed by Serb forces under a policy that became known as ethnic cleansing.
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Treasury Department officials said Friday that the Trump administration imposed sanctions on several top Myanmar military and police commanders amid what it calls the "ethnic cleansing" of the Rohingya Muslim population.
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" In addition to saluting Trump's new strategic direction, Ghani took time to criticize Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi, saying her "lengthy silence" on the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya "was tragic.
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Envoys from the U.N. Security Council are spending four days in Bangladesh and Myanmar "to see firsthand the aftermath" of what is being labeled ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, Reuters reports.
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Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has faced heavy international criticism for not taking a higher profile in responding to what U.N. officials have called "ethnic cleansing" by the army.
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Lorde pulled the plug Sunday in reaction to backlash over her upcoming Tel Aviv concert next June, with some fans saying she shouldn't support what they call "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians.
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This tragedy was the worst atrocity of the Nagorno-Karabakh War, which resulted in the occupation and ethnic cleansing of around 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory by neighboring Armenia.
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In other news: ■ Don't miss the in-depth report by The Times's Paul Mozur on how the Myanmar military used Facebook as a tool for ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya.
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The General Assembly session has come against the backdrop of global calamities: wars in Syria and Yemen, ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and climate change.
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And such embellished tales only buttress the Myanmar government's contention that what is happening in Rakhine State is not ethnic cleansing, as the international community suggests, but trickery by foreign invaders.
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Here in a country torn apart by civil war and ethnic cleansing for 14 years, where government is mostly just a rumor, kids die routinely because of the chaos and dysfunction.
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Most recently it has been accused of abuses during what it calls "clearance operations" against ethnic Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, which the United Nations has said amounts to ethnic cleansing.
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A decade ago, rival Shiite militias controlled the Baghdad police, a division of the Interior Ministry, and they were often implicated in kidnappings, killings and even ethnic cleansing of Sunni neighborhoods.
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This past week, my colleagues at The Times reported on the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, an ethnic minority in Myanmar that has been subjected to brutal violence and mass displacement.
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No matter how bad a present-day politician, not one of them has charted or is charting a course to exterminate millions of innocent people as an act of ethnic cleansing.
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That trend is visible everywhere from the Buddhist monks cheering ethnic cleansing in Myanmar to the Hindu majoritarians who dominate Indian politics to the violent Muslim extremists in the Middle East.
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In March, a 17-year-old was arrested in Charlottesville, Va., in connection with a threatening "ethnic cleansing" post online that forced the city's public schools to close for two days.
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Her government has been accused internationally of "ethnic cleansing" against Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya population, at least 688,000 of whom have fled across the border in Bangladesh in the last six months.
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"There is already a steady process of ethnic cleansing underway in several areas of South Sudan, using starvation, gang rape and the burning of villages," Yasmin Sooka said in a statement.
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Prosecutors in the Mladic case said they had included new details about Serbia's secret strategy behind its brutal ethnic cleansing campaign to gain more land for Serbs in Bosnia and Croatia.
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Nearly 700,000 mainly Rohingya Muslims fled to Bangladesh in the past eight months following a Myanmar military crackdown that the United Nations, United States and Britain have denounced as ethnic cleansing.
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Why it matters: Thousands of Rohingya Muslims have died and more than 700,000 have fled Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh to flee the ethnic cleansing and apparent genocide that started in 2017.
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After the ethnic cleansing of 1955, the purpose of which was to intimidate and exile the city's non-Muslim minorities, most of them left Istiklal Avenue and their homes in Istanbul.
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The military in Myanmar, previously known as Burma, where Buddhism is the main religion, has denied accusations of ethnic cleansing and says its actions were part of a fight against terrorism.
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The Rohingya fled their homes in Rakhine into Bangladesh after militant attacks in August last year sparked a military crackdown that the United Nations and Western countries have said constitutes ethnic cleansing.
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It's a personal family story, but it's directly related to the narrative of what happened in 1948, with the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, because the scar happened at that time.
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The U.S. government issued sanctions Friday against members of the Myanmar military for their part in an ethnic cleansing campaign against Rohingya Muslims that has forced over 700,000 people from their homes.
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A day after the panel issued its report in August 2017, Rohingya insurgents launched attacks on security forces, provoking a military crackdown the UN has called a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing".
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But Ankara's ground force consists largely of Syrian rebel groups, many of them hardline Islamists whom the Kurds fear could unleash a campaign of ethnic cleansing against minorities in this diverse region.
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IT HAS been nearly a year since Myanmar's army started driving the Rohingya people out of their villages in Rakhine state, in what the UN called a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing".
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SRS: In Maus, the victims of genocide and ethnic cleansing are Polish Jews, and in Baddawi, just 20 years later, these same atrocities are being perpetuated by the Israeli army and people.
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to Myanmar authorities on Tuesday to end violence against Rohingya Muslims, warning of the risk of ethnic cleansing, a possible humanitarian catastrophe, and regional destabilisation.
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The Tendopoli was formed after race riots in 13 turned into an "ethnic cleansing" campaign, resulting in authorities bulldozing the previous migrant camp and pushing it further to the outskirts of town.
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A day after the panel issued its report in August 2017, Rohingya insurgents launched attacks on security forces, provoking a military crackdown the U.N. investigators described as "ethnic cleansing" with "genocidal intent".
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With its emphasis on this particular gesture and the bodies of the subjects, the image seems less an exploration of Myanmar's attempts at ethnic cleansing than a reference to a religious artwork.
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More than 700,000 mostly Muslim Rohingya have escaped Buddhist-majority Myanmar since last August, when attacks by Muslim insurgents triggered a military offensive that the United Nations has likened to ethnic cleansing.
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In Myanmar, a UN-backed fact-finding mission found that members of the Myanmar military used Facebook as a tool in the government's campaign of ethnic cleansing against the country's Rohingya population.
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Suu Kyi condemned human rights violations and said anyone responsible would face the law but she did not address U.N. accusations that the military campaign in Rakhine state was "textbook" ethnic cleansing.
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This act of ethnic cleansing was fuelled in part by a belief among Oromos that Gedeos had become the largest ethnic group in the area and planned to annex it from Oromia.
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Malaysia described the violence against Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya minority as "ethnic cleansing" on Saturday, ahead of a planned solidarity march in Kuala Lumpur expected to be led by Prime Minister Najib Razak.
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The terrorist faction was also deemed responsible for "crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing" (that is, misdeeds which do not fit the term "genocide") against fellow Sunni Muslims, Kurds and other groups.
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It has also become a major channel for the spread of hate speech and propaganda that has encouraged and obfuscated ethnic cleansing of the country's Muslim Rohingya, according to human rights groups.
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Myanmar has also rejected U.N. accusations that its forces are engaged in ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims in response to coordinated attacks by Rohingya insurgents on the security forces on Aug. 25.
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He said Serbia had protested to the EU to make Croats "ashamed because of Serbian blood on their hands and ethnic cleansing in 1995," a reference to events in the Balkan wars.
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Nearly 300,000 of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims have been driven from their homes by an indiscriminate military campaign of mass killings, rapes, and arson that the United Nations has likened to ethnic cleansing.
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Muddying the waters for the Vatican delegation, a Myanmar regional bishop cast doubt at the same news conference about allegations of ethnic cleansing, suggesting "other communities" might be responsible for stoking them.
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The exodus began after a series of Rohingya militant attacks sparked a sweeping military response in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, which the U.N. rights agency said was a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing".
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For years, the Myanmar security forces have been allowed to get away with ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, with devastating results for the people of Myanmar, in particular its ethnic minorities.
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According to a UN report released in early February, thousands of Muslims like Jat have been slaughtered across the region, in what is being described by the Malaysian government as ethnic cleansing.
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Suu Kyi, a former Nobel Peace Prize winner for her nonviolent resistance to the military junta that ruled Myanmar for decades, has also denied that ethnic cleansing is going on her country.
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"Aung San Suu Kyi has denied any ethnic cleansing and dismissed numerous claims of sexual violence against Rohingya women as 'fake rape,'" Councilor Mary Clarkson said in a statement posted on Twitter.
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"There is something ridiculous about Netanyahu's claim against 'ethnic cleansing of Jews,'" Ben-Dror Yemini, a political columnist often critical of Israel's opponents, wrote in Monday's edition of the newspaper Yediot Aharonot.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said ethnic cleansing was too strong a term to describe what was happening in the Muslim-majority Rakhine region, the BBC reported on Wednesday.
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Thousands of the Rohingya fled for Myanmar to Bangladesh on Monday in a new surge of refugees driven by fears of starvation and violence which the United Nations denounced as ethnic cleansing.
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Just an hour's drive from Sandy, in another U.N. camp of mud huts, sits five-year-old Dekanmo, a refugee from Ethiopia whose family fled ethnic cleansing in the country's Gambella region.
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The US and UN have described what unfolded as "ethnic cleansing" of the mainly Muslim Rohingya from Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist country where few seem to have much sympathy for the Rohingya.
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The massacre occurred during attacks on the Rohingya by Myanmar's army and Buddhist mobs — violence that drove hundreds of thousands of refugees into Bangladesh and has been widely characterized as ethnic cleansing.
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The U.N. and the United States have described the Myanmar military's actions as "ethnic cleansing", and rights groups have accused the security forces of committing atrocities, including mass rape, arson and killings.
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The Trump administration has placed sanctions on several commanders and units of Myanmar's security forces for their roles in the "ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims and other minority groups in the country.
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HONG KONG — Violence has again convulsed the western state of Rakhine in Myanmar, the same region where the United Nations has accused the country's authorities of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya minority.
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The Bassiouni report, a strongly worded document with voluminous details on torture, rape, prison camps and killings, described the largely Serbian-instigated violence as part of a systematic policy of ethnic cleansing.
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There's an equally long literature cataloging America's many sins, most of them real but very few of them all that particular to us, including slavery, ethnic cleansing, territorial conquest, racism and misogyny.
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To the Editor: S. Matthew Liao, a professor of moral philosophy, absolves Facebook of any responsibility for its role in the ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya population in largely Buddhist Myanmar.
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Nearly 500 people have been killed and more than half a million Rohingya have fled to neighboring Bangladesh to escape what the United Nations has called a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing".
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The pontiff refused to address by name the Rohingya Muslims, the victims of an ethnic cleansing campaign at the hands of Myanmar authorities, during a visit to the country on Tuesday morning.
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Myanmar cover-up: Our reporter Hannah Beech visited Rakhine State to see the government's plans for resettling the Rohingya Muslims, two years after a vicious ethnic cleansing displaced hundreds of thousands them.
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As long as Tehran complied with the JCPOA, the world raised no objection to the ethnic cleansing of Syrian Sunnis by Iran's Shiite militiamen from as far away as Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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Washington and other powers called the one-day meeting after Sooka's commission reported this month that ethnic cleansing was already taking place in South Sudan, which only seceded from Sudan in 2011.
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For balance, we must recall that KFOR was established in 28500 after the U.S.-led NATO intervention to stop the ethnic cleansing of mostly Kosovar Albanians at the hands of dominating Serbia.
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This will be the IMF's first visit since more than half a million Rohingya fled into Bangladesh after a military crackdown that the United Nations has said is tantamount to ethnic cleansing.
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This was the decade of mistrust and manipulation, when platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube became synonymous with hijacking democratic elections, promoting ethnic cleansing, and creating "digital voodoo dolls" from our data.
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Several countries and the United Nations secretary general have called the violence against the Rohingya ethnic cleansing, and the Trump administration is said to be considering whether to label it as such.
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Since 2017, the western state of Rakhine has turned into a global byword for ethnic cleansing, as members of the Buddhist majority unleashed a widespread rampage against the Muslim Rohingya ethnic group.
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The post, touting a military campaign that the U.N. has since described as a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing," shared alarmingly well, piling up 2000,228 shares, 22017,0003 reactions, and over 2000,222 comments.
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The post, touting a military campaign that the U.N. has since described as a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing," shared alarmingly well, piling up 13,500 shares, 22,000 reactions, and over 2,000 comments.
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The track, off her forthcoming album The Hope Six Demolition Project (due April 15), was inspired by her visits to villages in Kosovo and Afghanistan gutted by ethnic cleansing in the 90s.
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In a ramping up of the pressure on Myanmar, also known as Burma, Haley echoed U.N. accusations that the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people in Rakhine state was ethnic cleansing.
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"The majority of Tel Rifaat is Arab and Turkmen, and if the PYD says it will capitalize on (its control), then this means ethnic cleansing, and this will not benefit Syria," he said.
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The U.N.'s human rights chief said Wednesday he strongly suspects Myanmar has committed "acts of genocide" against the Rohingya, as his office warned of continued ethnic cleansing of the country's Muslim minority.
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Further violence could pave the way for ethnic cleansing, forcing hundreds of thousands of additional Kurdish civilians to flee their homes and letting Turkey resettle the safe zone mainly with Syrian Arab refugees.
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Despite all of the bad press and fallout (which includes everything from disrupting the media business to election interference to ethnic cleansing in places like Myanmar), the company is vast, powerful, and profitable.
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Last month, a Myanmar government probe - led by former head of military intelligence and now Vice President, Myint Swe - rejected allegations of crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during the crackdown last year.
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The armed forces in Myanmar published a report absolving themselves of any wrongdoing in a campaign ostensibly directed at guerrillas from the Rohingya minority but which has been a cover for ethnic cleansing.
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A top U.N. official described the military's actions as "ethnic cleansing", though Myanmar denied that, saying its operation was needed for national security after Rohingya militants attacked 30 security posts on Aug. 25.
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A declaration of genocide by the U.S. government, which has only gone as far as labeling the crackdown "ethnic cleansing," could have legal implications of committing Washington to stronger punitive measures against Myanmar.
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Rari means "widow" in the language of the Rohingyas—a Muslim minority from the largely Buddhist country of Myanmar that has been victim to an "ethnic cleansing" campaign enacted by the Myanmar government.
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The people of CAR expect its government to function, and if it cannot or will not take responsibility for the religious, ethnic, and sectarian violence it faces, we will see more ethnic cleansing.
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