ethnic cleansing
Meaning
Noun
- The mass expulsion or killing of people belonging to one ethnic or religious group by those of another.
Related
Similar words
- ethnic purge
Origin
- Possibly a , though this is probably attested later. Originally used of (and still often associated with) the wars in former Yugoslavia during the 1990s.
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