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Recent Examples of ethnic cleansing
This comes as Israel faces accusations of ethnic cleansing in its attacks on Gaza, an accusation the IDF denies.
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Victoria Beaule, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2024
The second is the Israeli campaign of mass murder and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, part of a larger strategy aimed at the erasure of all Palestinian presence from Israel-Palestine.
—Karen Parker Lears, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
Bu Meh, a member of Myanmar's Karenni ethnic minority, fled what her relatives described as ethnic cleansing in the Southeast Asian nation about 10 years ago.
—CBS News, 20 Dec. 2024
War crime This Israeli behavior is clearly ethnic cleansing, which is a war crime.
—Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 18 Dec. 2024
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Victoria Beaule, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2024
The second is the Israeli campaign of mass murder and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, part of a larger strategy aimed at the erasure of all Palestinian presence from Israel-Palestine.
—Karen Parker Lears, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
Bu Meh, a member of Myanmar's Karenni ethnic minority, fled what her relatives described as ethnic cleansing in the Southeast Asian nation about 10 years ago.
—CBS News, 20 Dec. 2024
War crime This Israeli behavior is clearly ethnic cleansing, which is a war crime.
—Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 18 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ethnic cleansing
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The Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire grew to be the largest, leading to numerous evacuation orders and destroying thousands of structures.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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Vistra — The electricity generation stock rose 8.5% after evacuation orders stemming from a fire at the company’s Moss Landing battery storage facility were lifted.—
Hakyung Kim,
CNBC,
21 Jan. 2025
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Zuberi was convicted on charges of kidnapping, transportation, unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition and unlawful possession of ammunition, according to court documents.—
Paloma Chavez,
Sacramento Bee,
20 Jan. 2025
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The temporary closure of the Texas airports could also disrupt business travel, tourism, and the transportation of goods, since cargo flights, carrying essential supplies, could also be delayed.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
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But the development that sprung up around this mass migration of fortune seekers had a lasting impact on the state’s economy.—
Laura Kiniry,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 Jan. 2025
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News of the riches would soon spread beyond across the United States, kick-starting a wave of mass migration to California that boosted the nation’s economy, reshaped the landscape and altered its culture.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA TODAY,
24 Jan. 2025
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The Great Famine that ensued, lasting from 1845 to 1852, marked a major crisis in Irish history that depleted the population due to death and emigration; around one million people died during this period, and closer to two million left the country.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
24 Jan. 2025
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Now, owing to the combination of widespread emigration, a plummeting birth rate, and civilian and military casualties during three years of war, Ukraine’s population has declined to 35 million, the United Nations reported late last year.—
Howard LaFranchi,
The Christian Science Monitor,
8 Jan. 2025
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“Ethnic cleansing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ethnic%20cleansing. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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