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Recent Examples of ethnic cleansing
Human rights experts and organizations have called this operation an ethnic cleansing and even a genocide.
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Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
The proposal has been welcomed by Netanyahu, but derided by Palestinian and Arab leaders alike, who characterize it as ethnic cleansing.
—Mick Krever, CNN, 18 Feb. 2025
In 2016, following a free election that saw voters reject the junta in favor of democratic candidates, the military launched a brutal campaign against the Rohingya widely recognized as an ethnic cleansing, with thousands killed and hundreds of thousands fleeing across the border to Bangladesh.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
Palestinians, other Arabs and many experts in the field have rejected Mr. Trump’s proposal as ethnic cleansing.
—Adam Rasgon, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
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Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
The proposal has been welcomed by Netanyahu, but derided by Palestinian and Arab leaders alike, who characterize it as ethnic cleansing.
—Mick Krever, CNN, 18 Feb. 2025
In 2016, following a free election that saw voters reject the junta in favor of democratic candidates, the military launched a brutal campaign against the Rohingya widely recognized as an ethnic cleansing, with thousands killed and hundreds of thousands fleeing across the border to Bangladesh.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
Palestinians, other Arabs and many experts in the field have rejected Mr. Trump’s proposal as ethnic cleansing.
—Adam Rasgon, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ethnic cleansing
Noun
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Either there was some human error along the chain of command issuing evacuations or there was some type of technical error in sending the alerts.—
Grace Toohey,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2025
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The World Health Organization (WHO) said last week that some 12,000 patients in Gaza need medical evacuation, and that only 123 people have been evacuated since the blockade was imposed in March.—
Tareq Al Hilou,
CNN Money,
20 May 2025
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The host team pays lodging and catering costs for the visiting teams, as well as all the costs for the tournament, such as officials, facilities and tournament transportation.—
Bill Bowden,
Arkansas Online,
19 May 2025
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Rotterdam has a long history as a trading and transportation hub.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2025
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Conservative border hawks have long blamed Flores for the rise in family migration, pointing out that smugglers often exploit the agreement’s 20-day detention limit for children to secure quick release for entire families.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
23 May 2025
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That’s highly synchronous, resulting in many, many animals making that migration simultaneously.—
Noël Fletcher,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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The Russian government does not keep comprehensive statistics on emigration, but the research platform Re: Russia has estimated that 820,000 to 920,000 people left Russia between February 24, 2022, and July 2023.—
Alexander Cooley,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Apr. 2025
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In turn, Venezuela would agree to slow emigration or maybe take back millions of migrants deported from the U.S.—
Marc Caputo,
Axios,
18 Jan. 2025
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“Ethnic cleansing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ethnic%20cleansing. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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