Genocide: The deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.
Ethnic Cleansing: The elimination of an unwanted group from a society, as by genocide or forced migration.
These examples include the purge of Armenians by the Turks beginning in 1915
Jews killed in the Ukraine in the 1910's as well as the Nazi regime
Cambodians under the Khmer Rouge in the 1970's
Bosnian Muslims in the former Yugoslavia
The 1994 massacres of nearly 1,000,000 Tutsis by Hutus, known as the Rwandan Genocide
Kikuyus in Kenya in 2008 by the Govt. lead by Obamas cousin
Darfur in this decade killing of Africans by the moslems
In 2003, Sinafasi Makelo, a representative of Mbuti Pygmies, told the UN's Indigenous People's Forum that during the Congo Civil War, his people were hunted down and eaten as though they were game animals. Both sides of the war regarded them as ';subhuman'; and some say their flesh can confer magical powers. Makelo asked the UN Security Council to recognise cannibalism as a crime against humanity and an act of genocide
Expulsion of white farmers by the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe in 2000
The ethnic cleansing of African American population of some racially mixed Los Angeles neighborhoods by Mexican street gangs. According to gang experts and law enforcement agents the Mexican Mafia leaders, or shot callers, have issued a ';green light'; on all blacks
What are all the current instances of ethnic cleansing?
happening right now:
Tutsi's in Republic of Congo(Some Hutu's too)
East Timor (indonesia)
possibly still in kosovo
Zimbabwe(The old ruling class(who happened to be Caucasian))
Tibet
Sri Lanka (Tamil)
Aceh region of indonesia(although it has mostly stopped since the Tsunamis' )What are all the current instances of ethnic cleansing?
After World War II, there were a few. There were cases of genocide in Rwanda and Kosovo in the 1990s. There are also the situations with Jews vs. Muslims in Israel and Muslims vs. Kurds throughout the rest of the middle east.
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