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unusual facts about Ethnic cleansing



Ghulam Azam

Former caretaker government adviser, human rights activist and witness for the prosecution Sultana Kamal said- "In brutality, Ghulam Azam is synonymous with German ruler Hitler who had influential role in implementation and execution of genocide and ethnic cleansing".

James Walston

Walston is one of the first academics who wrote about forgotten fascist Italy's role in ethnic cleansing and internments of civil population in Italian concentration camps, such as under Mario Roatta's watch in the Province of Ljubljana, that are in Italian media subjected to the repression of historical memory, and to historical revisionism especially in relation to the post-war foibe killings.

Judenfrei

Judenfrei ("free of Jews") or Judenrein ("clean of Jews") was a Nazi term to designate an area "cleansed" of Jewish presence during The Holocaust.

Miętkie, Lublin Voivodeship

In March 1944, Mietkie was one of hundreds of locales attacked by Polish partisans in acts of ethnic cleansing against the ethnic Ukrainian population.

Ostforschung

The research conducted by this organization, as well as the Ahnenerbe, was instrumental in the planning of ethnic cleansing and genocide of local non-German populations (see Generalplan Ost) and settlement of German colonists in order to Germanize Central and Eastern Europe.

Szychowice

In March 1944, Szychowice was one of hundreds of locales attacked by Polish partisans in acts of ethnic cleansing against the ethnic Ukrainian population.

The Mountain Wreath

According to Pavlović Serbian nationalists use it as a historical justification in their attempt to keep alive their dream of Greater Serbia, Croatian nationalists as the ultimate statement of the Oriental nature of South Slavs living east of the Drina river, while others view the Mountain Wreath as a manual for ethnic cleansing and fratricidal murder.

The right to homeland

The concept is relevant to debates concerning ethnic cleansing in Europe after World War II (notably of Germans and Hungarians), ethnic cleansing in Palestine, Cyprus and other areas.

Turkowice, Lublin Voivodeship

In March 1944, Turkowice was one of hundreds of locales attacked by Polish partisans in acts of ethnic cleansing against the ethnic Ukrainian population.

Vievo

During the First Balkan War, the village was set on fire by the local Bulgarian militia to ethnically cleanse the Muslim Turks from the region.


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Causes of the 1948 Palestinian exodus

Benny Morris considers that there was no master plan nor ethnic cleansing.

Ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia

The exact number of those killed during the ethnic cleansing is disputed, however, it ranges from 8,000 to 10,000 people, not including the civilians who were killed in 1998 during the separatist onslaught on Gali region.

Gerard Toal

His current book is Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Its Reversal, co-authored with Dr Carl Dahlman (Professor of Geography at Miami University in Ohio).

Kljajićevo

A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, 1944–1950

Milan Lukić

Ethnic cleansing was carried out on orders from the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and the military commander General Ratko Mladic and as elsewhere in Bosnia, persecution and mass murder was overseen by a local Bosnian Serb "Crisis Committee", under the presidency of Branimir Savović.

Misha Kokaia

Some say that he was killed in Sukhumi along with Zhiuli Shartava, Guram Gabiskiria and others by Abkhaz separatist rebels during the ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia on the same date.

Racism in the Arab world

Dr. Walid Phares writes about Arabism's denial of identity of millions of indigenous non-Arab nations as an ethnic cleansing on a politico-cultural level.

Sanjak of Alexandretta

This repartition was the result of a Turkish military intervention from Payas and Hassa just beforehand, on July 5, 1938, with the ethnic cleansing of most of its Arab and Armenian inhabitants who constituted the majority of the population.

The Expulsion

Expulsion of Poles by Germany, a prolonged anti-Polish campaign of ethnic cleansing

Željko Lelek

Željko Lelek (born 9 February 1962, Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina) was the first individual indicted for the mass rape crimes that were a feature of the expulsion of the Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) population of the town of Višegrad, as part of the strategic campaign of ethnic cleansing carried out in the Drina Valley in the early days of the Bosnian War.