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'''Ethnic Cleansing'''. Term popularised is a term popularized in the 1990s, referring to forcible displacement of ethnic groups during conflict, initially in Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia. Refers It refers to a practice seen much more widely, and despite sustained vociferous denials by the perpetrators and their descendants, in modern Middle East of [[Palestinians ]] by Israelis [[Israel]]is in 1948-9; of [[Kurds ]] by the Ba'thist regime in [[Iraq ]] in the 1980s; of non-Arab minorities in the wars of the Sudan; of Greeks and Armenians from [[Turkey ]] in the first decades of the twentieth century; and of Turks and other [[Muslim ]] peoples from the Balkans and around the Black Sea over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The word 'cleansing' has a sinister polysemic character, appearing to stop short of killing or genocide, with mere displacement, but also echoing the twentieth-century word 'purge' - a euphemism, as in Soviet Russia, for mass murder. In all of these cases a significant proportion of those 'cleansed' were actually killed, not least to encourage the others to leave.
Source: [[Fred Halliday]], ''100 Myths About the Middle East'', Saqi Books (September 2005) ISBN 0520247205.
==Related SourceWatch Resources==*[[civil war in Iraq]]
*[[Transfer (doublespeak)|transfer]]
==External Links==
===Profiles===
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing "ethnic cleansing"] in the ''Wikipedia''.
===In Iraq===
*Antonio Castaneda, [http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060419/REPOSITORY/604190334/1013/48HOURS "Suggestions of ethnic cleansing raised in Iraq,"] Associated Press (''Concord Monitor'' (NH)), April 19, 2006.
*Sameer N. Yacoub, [http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/60346.html "Ethnic cleansing fears fuel clashes in Baghdad,"] ''The Herald'' (UK), April 19, 2006.
*[[Anthony H. Cordesman]], [http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=1909893&page=1 "Dividing Iraq: First, Think Long and Hard,"] ABC News, May 1, 2006.
*Senator [[Joseph Biden]] and [[Leslie H. Gelb]], [http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/3844556.html "The Bosnia solution to Iraq. We can maintain united country by decentralizing it,"] ''Houston Chronicle'', May 6, 2006.
*David Edwards, [http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002791.htm "VIDEO - Iraqi Ethnic Cleansing: 'Epidemic' Forces 100,000+ Refugees from Homes. Red Crescent Claims 'Somebody is Behind Highly Organized Ethnic War',"] ''Veredictum.com'' (''Brad Blog''), May 6, 2006.
*Anthony H. Cordesman, [http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/article_1164892.php/Outside_View_Iraq%60s_militia_problem "Outside View: Iraq's militia problem,"] ''Monsters and Critics'' (UK), May 18, 2006.
*James Cogan, [http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/may2006/iraq-m19.shtml "Slaughter and ethnic cleansing accelerates in Iraq,"] ''WSWS'', May 18, 2006.
*Patrick Cockburn, [http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article548945.ece "Iraq is disintegrating as ethnic cleansing takes hold,"] ''The Independent'' (UK), May 20, 2006.
*Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1779418,00.html "Inside Iraq's hidden war,"] ''The Guardian'' (UK), May 20, 2006: "As a new 'national unity' government prepares to take power in Baghdad, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad reports from behind the lines of a vicious sectarian conflict rapidly spiralling towards civil war."
