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These can range from protectionist trade policies and increasingly strict immigration controls to religious wars and ethnic cleansing.
To be sure, the arrest of General Ante Gotovina, adored by many Croats as a hero, but responsible for the brutal expulsion of a quarter-million Serbs from Croatia and north-west Bosnia – the biggest ethnic cleansing in Europe since WWII – improves the ICTY’s standing.
Wars, ethnic cleansing, embargoes, and sanctions created not only psychological traumas, but also black markets, smuggling, large-scale corruption, and de facto rule by mafias.
For those inclined to see and remember, the situation in Rakhine State recalls the ethnic cleansing that occurred in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and the even worse massacres in Rwanda in the same decade.
NATO’s actions in Kosovo followed dramatic and systematic abuse of human rights, culminating in ethnic cleansing on a scale not seen in Europe since World War II.
The Kosovo intervention was also notable in another way: its legitimation was entirely moral in character, responding to the Milosevic regime's ethnic cleansing campaign, which had created a real threat of yet another immense humanitarian disaster.
China’s restive Muslim Uighurs, the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India, the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, the secessionist Muslim insurgency in the Philippines, and the ethnic separatist insurgency in southern Thailand all highlight Asia’s complex tapestry of unresolved religious and ethnic trouble spots.
Russia argues that its invasion was aimed at 1) stopping Georgia’s aggression against South Ossetians; 2) ending ethnic cleansing, genocide, and war crimes committed by Georgia there; 3) protecting Russian nationals; and 4) defending South Ossetians on the basis of the peace-keeping agreement signed by Boris Yeltsin and Eduard Shevardnadze in 1992.
Nor do genocide or ethnic cleansing seem to have occurred; if war crimes were perpetrated, they do not justify a military invasion.
Ten years later, Benito Mussolini rose to power, and soon after, Italian authorities pursued ethnic cleansing of the Cyrenaican Bedouin, killing more than a quarter of the Libyan population.
Alas, if they are allowed to run the show, Ukraine might face more redistribution of fortunes than cleansing of corruption, letting the revolutionary public down.
In Myanmar, the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in an overwhelmingly Buddhist country, have experienced an assault that the UN itself has labeled ethnic cleansing.
CANBERRA – Only one possible justification – moral, political, or military – exists for renewed Western or other external military intervention in Iraq: meeting the international responsibility to protect victims, or potential victims, of mass atrocity crimes – genocide, ethnic cleansing, other crimes against humanity, or major war crimes.
They know that their government is fragile, and they consider criticism harmful rather than cleansing.
Grave human rights abuses, ethnic cleansing, and genocide would no longer be permitted.
In the wake of the UN’s failures to prevent genocide and ethnic cleansing in Rwanda and Kosovo in the 1990’s, Kofi Annan worked with others to persuade governments to recognize a new responsibility to protect endangered peoples.
A vigorous new commitment to protecting the rights and freedoms of all citizens and residents and a zero-tolerance policy toward any state collusion with or tolerance of ethnic cleansing, torture, summary detention, citizen surveillance or other insults to democracy, is also necessary.
And today – even in Europe – rulers use theatrical tools to arouse the kind of blind nationalism that leads to war, ethnic cleansing, concentration camps, and genocide.
Today, that rage takes the form of regional conflicts and ethnic cleansing, of anonymous terrorist assaults.
What does Kosovo, where the Albanians suffered persecution and ethnic cleansing, have in common with the situation in Crimea, whose people have never been oppressed by Ukrainians?
Germany was reunited;Eastern Europe and the states on the Soviet periphery won their independence;South Africa’s apartheid regime fell apart, numerous civil wars in Asia, Africa, and Latin America ended;Israelis and Palestinians came closer to peace than at any time since; and a disintegrating Yugoslavia degenerated into war and ethnic cleansing.
But the preceding savagery of Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian ethnic cleansing, in that first phase of the Balkan tragedy, and the lily-livered impotence of the EU, had been so shocking and so shameful for the Europeans, that when they saw President Slobodan Milosevic embarking on an even more outrageous process of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, with the prospective death or displacement of tens or hundreds of thousands of Albanian Kosovars, they were compelled, almost willy nilly, to intervene more forcefully this time round.
Before the bombing, NATO's aim was to broker a new deal in Kosovo, in which Milosevic would abandon ethnic cleansing, and the Kosovars would get limited autonomy within Yugoslavia, but not independence.
The ethnic cleansing of many Baghdad neighborhoods in 2006 and 2007 was deplorable.
By far the most defensible rationale for military action is – and has been from the outset – the humanitarian objective: the responsibility to protect populations at risk of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other major crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Bosnian Muslim victims have waited decades for an international court to rule that the ethnic cleansing they suffered – especially in 1992, the worst year of the conflict – was genocide.
The slowness of democratic states in meeting the fascist challenge in the thirties or the scourge of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans is often cited in this regard.
It was a moment of truth, a cleansing from within of the brutality of Stalinism.
As a student at Duke University, he became friends with Richard Spencer, who would later become a promoter of “peaceful ethnic cleansing” to preserve white civilization, whatever that may be.
But then came the Balkans crises of the 1990s, culminating in the realization that only American military power could put a stop to Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic’s ethnic cleansing of Kosovo.
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