ethnic cleansing

Eka Tkeshelashvili described the forced moves as ethnic cleansing, though she did not specify who she was accusing of carrying it out.

Rape is often part of ethnic cleansing but it was strikingly absent here.

Amnesty International says a campaign of ethnic cleansing seems to have started to destabilize the region.

No one was called to answer for the brutal ethnic cleansing of Kikuyus that went on in his own political heartland in western Kenya.

Nor should "ethnic cleansing" be rewarded, which it would be in an independent Bosnian Serb republic or Abkhazia.

It was to be invoked only for genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing or crimes against humanity.

The longer-term effects of the ethnic cleansing are beginning to register.

Human Rights Watch documented a large number of atrocities, including ethnic cleansing, perpetrated by both sides during the war.

Those of the same ethnicity as the two main rebel groups have been targeted most as part of the campaign of ethnic cleansing.

In such a world, what hope is there of addressing the risks of nuclear conflict, ethnic cleansing and environmental disaster?

Today the upheaval on both sides of the partition line would be described as ethnic cleansing on a gigantic scale.

Iran was failing to stop the ethnic cleansing of Baghdad's Sunnis, he was told. It persecuted its own Sunni minority.

As a result, "ethnic cleansing" remains substantially in place in many areas.

A foretaste of the ethnic cleansing that was to become the grim hallmark of the war.

The fact that ethnic cleansing is repugnant does not obviate the need to devise the most appropriate response.

The anti-coalition insurgents have been joined by sectarian death squads whose aim is the ethnic cleansing of mixed Sunni and Shia areas.

The second option is to engage in ethnic cleansing of "C" players and fire the bottom 10 per cent every year.

So it is no surprise that when reports of alleged ethnic cleansing begin to bleed out, Western policymakers start to squirm.

Read the book of Joshua, there God called for the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Canaanite men, women, children, and livestock.

In disputed border areas, shelling and alleged ethnic cleansing by Khartoum government forces has sent hundreds of thousands fleeing south.

Prosecutors called him the supreme commander of the campaign of ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian War of the 1990s.

A new "Yugosphere" of common culture and trade links is eroding the nightmarish memories of war and ethnic cleansing (see article).

Many Sunnis however are petrified of the group which they accuse of carrying a relentless ethnic cleansing campaign against them.

Nothing on the scale of ethnic cleansing is likely to occur in this new central theater of conflict.

A campaign of 'ethnic cleansing' begins with one neighbour turning on another.

SIX weeks after Mwai Kibaki stole an election, the bloodshed and ethnic cleansing in swathes of Kenya are getting frighteningly worse.

At worst, rape is a tool of ethnic cleansing and genocide, as in Bosnia, Darfur and Rwanda.

mass murder , ethnic cleansing . they ' re lunatics.

And ethnic cleansing and looting of Georgian villages in South Ossetia took place under the gaze of Russian troops.

That tribe is facing ethnic cleansing.

There will be some "ethnic cleansing" going on, thats for sure and we will hear through Xinhua how great things are in Tibet.

the West in early modem age was still launching the brutal and inhuman ware of ethnic cleansing