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your inbox. Ethnic cleansing is the process or policy of
eliminating unwanted ethnic or religious groups by deportation,
forcible displacement, mass murder, or by threats of such acts,
with the intent of creating a territory inhabited by people of a
homogeneous or pure ethnicity, religion, culture, and history.
Ethnic cleansing usually involves attempts to remove physical
and cultural evidence of the targeted group in the territory
through the destruction of homes, social centers, farms, and
infrastructure, and by the desecration of monuments, cemeteries,
and places of worship. The crimes committed during an ethnic
cleansing is similar to that of genocide, but while genocide
includes complete extermination of the target group as the
stated goal, ethnic cleansing may involve murder only to the
point of mobilizing the target group out of the territory. Hence
there may be varied degrees of mas