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Ethnic cleansing is a type of crime against humanity. In an ethnic cleansing, ethnic or religious groups are forced to leave an area by a more powerful ethnic group. The goal of an ethnic cleansing is to get rid of everyone who does not belong to the more powerful ethnic group. Then the more powerful group can have the area they "cleansed" for themselves, and only members of their group will live there.

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  • Refugees at the Taurus Pass

    Refugees at Taurus Pass during the Armenian genocide. The Ottoman government aimed to reduce the number of Armenians below 5–10% of the population in any part of the empire, which necessarily entailed the elimination of a million Armenians.

  • Expulsión de los judíos

    The Alhambra Decree (1492), that ordered the expulsion of Jews from Spain, was an early example of ethnic cleansing, in this case an ethno-religious group. (Painting of Emilio Sala Francés, 1889)

  • Vertreibung

    Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia following the end of World War II

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