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But as Iraq spirals into chaos, diplomats and leaders everywhere are again asking themselves if it is ever appropriate for alliances of nations or the international community as a whole to intervene when a sovereign country appears unable or unwilling to defend its citizens from genocide, war crimes, or ethnic cleansing.
NATO peacekeeping troops were not directed to stop the abductions, disappearances, retaliation killings, and massive property destruction by groups of ethnic Albanians, which led to a vast reverse ethnic cleansing of the non-Albanian (mainly Serb) population.
After years of weak Western and United Nations response to Serb aggression and ethnic cleansing of Muslims and Croats in Bosnia, United States-led NATO bombing had put the Serbs on the defensive.
Karadzic’s arrest is no mere historical footnote; it removes from the scene a man who was still undermining peace and progress in the Balkans and whose enthusiastic advocacy of ethnic cleansing merits emphatic repudiation.
Making R2P WorkBERLIN – Ten years ago, world leaders agreed that the international community had a “responsibility to protect” populations from genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing.
In Abyei, Bashir’s regime planned and conducted a pogrom that can be characterized only as a premeditated act of ethnic cleansing intended to rid the city of ethnic Ngok Dinka and replace them with members of the northern-aligned Misseriya ethnic group.
The principle was designed to establish new standards of behavior and a framework for effective action to prevent and respond to genocide, ethnic cleansing, other crimes against humanity, and major war crimes.
The far left would recommend revolution; the far right, ethnic cleansing.
The waning of diversity in the Middle East goes back more than a century, to the bouts of ethnic and religious cleansing that took place during the Ottoman Empire, including the murder and displacement of 1.5 million Armenian and Syriac Christians in eastern Anatolia.
Ethnic cleansing and the plight of the Kosovar refugees, who are Muslim, doesn't seem to trouble anyone's sleep; nor is the ruthlessness of Slobodon Milosevic, who, after all, is no Orthodox patriarch, but a cunning ex-communist apparatchik, condemned in any way whatsoever.
As Reibling put it, “Conversion and ethnic/religious cleansing doesn’t ring well here in Germany particularly.
But the anti-Morsi forces that backed the revolution regard the price of cleansing the judiciary as too high, arguing that the constitutional declaration will lead to dictatorship.
But while this latest crackdown is particularly devastating – “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing,” according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees – persecution of the Rohingya is nothing new.
Is Ethnic Cleansing Coming to India?
He identified his source "a Hutu" and reported that arms were ready for the impending ethnic cleansing.
The goal is less often victory on the battlefield than ethnic cleansing, subjugation, even genocide.
It was NATO’s robust military intervention, not European diplomacy, that created the conditions for the end of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia.
They cannot forget that Maliki was in charge during the ethnic cleansing of Baghdad’s Sunni Muslims.
What distinguished the Hrtkovci speech, according to the Appeals Chamber, is that ethnic cleansing quickly followed, “in the context of coercion, harassment, and intimidation.”
One can be prosecuted for inciting a criminal action, such as forcible deportation or ethnic cleansing, in a context where that action is likely to be carried out imminently by members of one’s audience.
Repeatedly, Russia has undermined American resolve and ability to put effective pressure on authoritarian and tyrannical regimes which have ben engaged in aggression, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the internal repression of minorities.
Its financial dependence is an opportunity that the West, headed by America, must use judiciously to ensure that ethnic cleansing and the irresponsible proliferation of non-conventional weapons are not tolerated.
Andrew Jackson had his genocidal “Trail of Tears,” which entailed the ethnic cleansing of the Cherokee and other Indian tribes from the southeastern US.Warren G. Harding had the Teapot Dome scandal.
This stance, too, stems at least partly from World War II, as first the Holocaust and then the postwar ethnic cleansing of more than 30 million people, including virtually all Germans in the region, reinforced an aversion to multiethnicity.
Pathological narcissists have a tendency to indulge in violent conflicts and wars (think of Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam or of Andrew Jackson and the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans).
Or consider what today we would call the ethnic cleansing of Cherokee land in the early nineteenth century – an act of state-sanctioned forced migration known as the “Trail of Tears.”
The Dayton Accords of 1995 ended Serb-instigated ethnic cleansing and established peace in Bosnia.
Massive violence against civilian populations is “pacification,” and ethnic cleansing is a “transfer of population.”
Thus, one reason for the “success” claimed by supporters of the military surge may well be that sectarian cleansing in Baghdad has been hugely effective and is now nearly complete.
But the last decade of the twentieth century was also indelibly stained by ethnic cleansing in ex-Yugoslavia and genocide in Rwanda, and during the current decade the tide has seemed to turn against the rights cause.
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