How to Use ethnic cleansing in a Sentence

ethnic cleansing

noun

• What the Turks are doing now is ethnic cleansing of the Kurdish.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2019
• Or the ethnic cleansing in Sheikh Jarrah, or the airstrikes on Gaza, or maybe because of all of it together.
  — Julia MacFarlane, ABC News, 21 May 2021
• This was ethnic cleansing of Jews, right after the Holocaust, in the middle of the 20th century.
  — Joseph Samuels, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• There is no place for genocide, for ethnic cleansing, for war crimes in the 21st century.
  — CBS News, 10 Nov. 2019
• What makes Spain unique is that here the aims of ethnic cleansing were fully realized.
  — Aatish Taseer Richard Mosse, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• The conflict forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in bouts of ethnic cleansing on both sides.
  — Daniel Sneider, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2020
• The crackdown included rapes, killings and the torching of thousands of homes, and was termed ethnic cleansing by global rights groups and the U.N.
  — Grant Peck, Detroit Free Press, 3 Nov. 2021
• The 2017 crackdown included rapes, killings and the torching of thousands of homes, and was termed ethnic cleansing by global rights groups and the U.N.
  — Julhas Alam, ajc, 22 Oct. 2021
• Israeli demands for the mass evacuation of parts of Gaza have raised the specter of ethnic cleansing.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• Plus: Scenes of ethnic cleansing by pro-Turkish forces in Syria.
  — NBC News, 13 Oct. 2019
• The Kurds are worried that Turkey is intent on ethnic cleansing.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 12 Oct. 2019
• Thousands of Buddhist monks have held protests against the West for wanting to bring the military to justice for ethnic cleansing.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2020
• Global rights groups and the UN called the campaign ethnic cleansing involving rapes, killings and torching of thousands of homes.
  — Julhas Alam, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2020
• Researchers have found that Facebook has been used to spread everything from hate speech to ethnic cleansing.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2021
• Rights groups say ‘ethnic cleansing’ is happening in Ethiopia’s Tigray.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• The process often involved brute force or ethnic cleansing as land was seized and handed over to immigrants.
  — John Rennie Short, The Conversation, 14 Mar. 2022
• This was essentially an act of ethnic cleansing, and Longfellow is alert to the tragedy of the Acadian exile.
  — James Marcus, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
• The crackdown included rapes, killings and the torching of thousands of homes, and was termed ethnic cleansing by global rights groups and the United Nations.
  — Arkansas Online, 30 July 2021
• This means ethnic cleansing by removing the Kurds from their land and replacing them with some others.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2019
• The flow of people has surged since 2017, when more than three-quarters of a million Rohingya fled an ethnic cleansing campaign in Myanmar.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2020
• For reporting on the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in China!
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 20 Jan. 2022
• Human rights groups have accused ethnic Amhara fighters of leading a campaign of ethnic cleansing there to force Tigrayans to leave.
  — Declan Walsh, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2022
• As reports of ethnic cleansing emerged, the world reacted with disbelief as Suu Kyi stayed silent.
  — Catesby Holmes, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2019
• On the contrary, an eager appetite for ethnic cleansing could not have been more apparent.
  — Diane Cole, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2022
• The 75 years of ethnic cleansing, now shifting to genocide, must occupy our consciousness and not Hamas.
  — Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2023
• This ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh – first through hunger, then by force of arms – completed the Azerbaijani victory.
  — Ronald Suny, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2023
• The flow of people surged after 2017, when more than three-quarters of a million Rohingya fled an ethnic cleansing campaign in Myanmar.
  — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2021
• Thousands of people are estimated to have died in the conflict, which by many accounts bears the hallmarks of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
  — CNN, 6 Oct. 2021
• The state counsellor of Myanmar and onetime human rights icon fell from grace as her government oversaw the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya.
  — Fortune, 9 Aug. 2019
• In 2018, Facebook commissioned a report on the role its platform played in stoking ethnic cleansing.
  — Barbara Ortutay, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024