Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide, and Exile Introduction In her book "The Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide, Samantha Power recounts the story of Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew, who was determined to find a word that would...

Ethnic Cleansing Ethnic cleansing is a relatively new term for the ancient practice of expelling a people, using a variety of means, from a geographic area to secure it for another people Winter...

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ETHNIC CLEANSING. By Andrew Bell-Fialkoff. Macmillan; 346 pages; K30. St Martin's Press; $45 OF ALL the consequences of the recent global surge in ethnic awareness, none has been so roundly condemned as ethnic cleansing. In deference to public indignation at the practice,...

ADRIANOPLE -- In a never-ending, staggering march the Christian population of Eastern Thrace is jamming the roads towards Macedonia. The main column crossing the Maritza River at Adrianople is twenty miles long. Twenty miles of carts drawn by cows, bullocks and muddy-flanked water buffaloes,...

The photos of emaciated concentration camp survivors and mass graves are reminiscent of another Holocaust.But this one was less than two decades ago, when Slobodan Milosevic put his plan for "ethnic cleansing" into place. The Bosnian city of Prijedor, where Muslims, Catholics and orthodox Christians...

The State Department backed away Wednesday from its top African envoy's description of postelection violence in Kenya as "ethnic cleansing," saying it was too early to characterize the situation in such terms.In comments aimed at easing emotional reactions to the phrase and potential comparisons to...