Ethnic cleansing
Ethnic cleansing is, according to a 1993 United Nations Commission, "the planned deliberate removal from a specific territory, persons of a particular ethnic group, by force or intimidation, in order to render that area ethnically homogenous."[1]
The phrase ethnic cleansing often implies mainly physical removal rather than mass killings. Regardless, violence, threats of violence, and other crimes very often occur during ethnic cleansings. However, there is no international treaty that specifies a specific crime of ethnic cleansing, although recently some international courts have defined the forcible deportation of a population (not limited to ethnic groups) as a crime against humanity.
Examples of ethnic cleansings include many in the Jewish Bible, of Jews during Jewish expulsions, much of the German population who found themselves in the new Poland after 1919, so-called Lebensraum during WWII, of the 17 million Germans[2][3][4][5][6][7][8], and others, during and after WWII, and of Palestinians by Israel[9]
The phrase "ethnic cleansing" may sometimes be used as an ambiguous negative label on a wide variety of disliked phenomena involving changing ethnic demographics, such as colonialism, genocide, mass immigration, repatriation, and various forms of White flight.
References
- ↑ Ethnic Cleansing Law & Legal Definition http://definitions.uslegal.com/e/ethnic-cleansing/
- ↑ The Expulsion of the German Population from the Territories East of the Oder-Neisse Line edited by Professor Theodor Schieder, with Dr. Adolf Diestelkamp, Federal Archivist, Professor Dr. Rudolf Laun, Professor Peter Rassow, and Professor Dr. Hans Rothfels, published by the German Federal Ministry for Expellees, Refugees and War Victims, Bonn, 1954.
- ↑ The Expulsion of the German Population from Czechoslovakia edited by Professor Theodor Schieder, with W. Conze, Dr. Adolf Diestelkamp, Federal Archivist, Professor Dr. Rudolf Laun, Professor Peter Rassow, and Professor Dr. Hans Rothfels, published by the German Federal Ministry for Expellees, Refugees and War Victims, Bonn, 1960.
- ↑ The Fate of the Germans in Hungary edited by Professor Theodor Schieder, with W. Conze, Dr. Adolf Diestelkamp,Federal Archivist, Professor Dr. Rudolf Laun, Professor Peter Rassow, and Professor Dr. Hans Rothfels, published by the German Federal Ministry for Expellees, Refugees and War Victims, Bonn, 1961.
- ↑ The Sudeten-German Tragedy by Dr. Austin J. App, PhD., USA, 1979.
- ↑ A Terrible Revenge - The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans by Alfred Maurice de Zayas, UN Commissioner for Human Rights, English translation, New York, 1993/4, 'Upper Silesia' - see index, paperback ISBN 978-1-4039-7308-5
- ↑ The Liquidator - Edvard Benes, Fiend of the German purge in Czechoslovakia, by Sidonia Dedina, English-language edition, USA, 2001, ISBN 0-9663968-4-7
- ↑ Orderly and Humane - The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War, by Professor R. M. Douglas, Yale University Press, 2012, ISBN 9-780300-198201
- ↑ Bitter Harvest by Sami Hadawi, U.K., 1989, ISBN 0-005906-85-3
