Ethnic Cleansing Watch
Ethnic Cleansing Watch seeks to collect information about these atrocities with the aim of encouraging action to prevent ethnic cleansing. Ethnic cleansing has already led to the forced migration of tens of millions of people, and it continues to threaten many communities to the present day.
What is ethnic cleansing?
Ethnic cleansing refers to the removal, through violence and intimidation of an ethnic group from a given territory. In practice the groups targeted for removal may also be identified by some combination of religion and ethnicity.
About this site:
This site is maintained by Benjamin Lieberman, Professor of History at Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts, and the author of Terrible Fate: Ethnic Cleansing inthe Making of Modern Europe (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006).
For more information on Terrible Fate:
How is ethnic cleansing related to genocide?
Genocide as defined by the United Nations Convention on Genocide of 1948 refers to “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.” Ethnic cleansing can overlap with genocide when the methods used to carry out ethnic cleansing also lead to genocide.
