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Recent Examples on the Web Whether as a handmaiden to ethnic cleansing or as a pandemic whose denial is spawning wildly anti-democratic conspiracy theories, disease has a funny way of turning into a battle fought along political lines, while masquerading as natural disaster. — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, "It’s a Perfect Year for a Non-Thanksgiving," 26 Nov. 2020 Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has accused forces loyal to Tigray's leaders of carrying out mass killings and ethnic cleansing. — Tim O'donnell, TheWeek, "10 things you need to know today: November 14, 2020," 14 Nov. 2020 The company formalized procedures for humanitarian interventions after the United Nations blamed the company’s inaction on hate speech and incitements to violence for fueling the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. — Jeff Horwitz, WSJ, "Facebook Prepares Measures for Possible Election Unrest," 25 Oct. 2020 The conflict forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in bouts of ethnic cleansing on both sides. — Daniel Sneider, The Christian Science Monitor, "Nagorno-Karabakh: A reporter’s regretful recollections," 26 Oct. 2020 The flow of people has surged since 2017, when more than three-quarters of a million Rohingya fled an ethnic cleansing campaign in Myanmar. — Hannah Beech, New York Times, "For Young Rohingya Brides, Marriage Means a Perilous, Deadly Crossing," 17 Oct. 2020 Both sides engaged in ethnic cleansing during the Nagorno-Karabakh War—the Azerbaijanis against ethnic Armenians, and Armenian forces against ethnic Azeris. — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, "How the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has been shaped by past empires," 15 Oct. 2020 America’s ethnic cleansing campaigns across the American West. — Casey Michel, The New Republic, "The “Oath Keepers” Are Today’s Blackshirts," 31 Aug. 2020 But with the new knowledge of the systemic and organized practices of ethnic cleansing, many Uighur rights advocates are saying that the Trump administration should do more. — Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, "Uighur rights activists use reports of forced sterilization to push for more action from Trump," 30 June 2020

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“Ethnic cleansing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ethnic%20cleansing. Accessed 15 Dec. 2020.