08 Aug, 2025
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The Difference Between Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide

Until recently it seemed almost commonplace that the United States and other U.N. Security Council members would refer to violence in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda as “ethnic cleansing.” This term has been widely used since 1992. It allows the perpetrators of these atrocities to avoid labeling them as genocide, which triggers mandatory international intervention […]