Ethnic Cleansing

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
EC
Pronunciation
/ˈɛθnɪk ˈklɛnzɪŋ/
Category
Governmental
Related Field
United Nations

Examples in Context

  1. The ministers expressed dismay at the continued practice of ethnic cleansing
  2. Croatia accused Serbia of committing ethnic cleansing and genocide in the city of Vukovar and other areas in 1991.
  3. In such a world, what hope is there of addressing the risks of nuclear conflict, ethnic cleansing and environmental disaster?
  4. During the conflict that followed, the Serb forces launched what the called the " ethnic cleansing " of the territories under their control – the forced displacement and killings of Muslims and Croats.
  5. It hopes the West will forget ethnic cleansing in Abkhazia drove out more than three-quarters of the local population ethnic Georgians, Greeks, Jews and others leaving the minority Abkhaz in control.

Other meanings of EC