ethnic cleansing
A purposeful act by one ethnic or religious group to remove another ethnic or religious group from a geographic area through force, intimidation, coercion, violence, or terrorism to create an ethnically homogeneous region.
Following the war and acts committed in the former nation of Yugoslavia, a United Nations Commission of Experts found that ethnic cleansing can include murder, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, extrajudicial executions, rape and sexual assaults, severe physical injury to civilians, confinement of civilian population in ghetto areas, forcible removal, displacement and deportation of civilian population, deliberate military attacks or threats of attacks on civilians and civilian areas, use of civilians as human shields, destruction of property, robbery of personal property, attacks on hospitals, medical personnel, and locations with the Red Cross/Red Crescent emblem, among others.
The commission added that this could also coincide with genocide.
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