Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing

Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing ? What on earth are that? Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group while ethnic cleansing is the elimination of an unwanted group from a society, as by genocide or forced migration. So, Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing have a close relationship between them. In this post, we will share with you a few example of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing that happen in other country.

20th Century
Armenian genocide-ethnic cleansings of armenian population of Ottoman Turkey is said to be the first genocide of 20th century, starting from Hamidian massacres in the end of 19-th century till 1923 in Cilicia and has reached its peak in 1915. 

The Nazi German government's persecutions and expulsions of Jews in Germany, Austria and other Nazi-controlled areas prior to the initiation of mass genocide. Estimated number of those who died in the process is nearly 6 million Jews. 

During World War II, in Kosovo & Metohija, approximately 10,000 Serbs lost their lives, and about 80 to 100,000 or more were ethnically cleansed.

The Population exchange between Greece and Turkey has been described as an ethnic cleansing. 

During the Partition of India 5 million Hindus and Sikhs fled from what became Pakistan into India and more than 6 million Muslims fled from what became India into Pakistan. The events which occurred during this time period have been described as ethnic cleansing by Ishtiaq Ahmed (an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University) 

21st century 

The killings of ethnic Uzbeks in the 2010 South Kyrgyzstan riots resulting in the flight of thousands of Uzbek refugees to Uzbekistan have been called "ethnic cleansing" by the OSCE and international media. 

The deportation of Roma by France in 2010 was called a "disgrace" by the European Commission, and has been likened to ethnic cleansing by Viviane Reding, the European Justice Commissioner, who called it “a situation that I had thought that Europe would not have to witness again after the Second World War.” 

South Africa Ethnic Cleansing erupted on 11 May 2008 within three weeks 80 000 were displaced the death toll was 62, with 670 injured by the violence when South Africans ejected non-nationals in a nationwide ethnic cleansing/xenophobic outburst. 

Source Wikipedia