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...the fact that you misuse the term "ethnic cleansing" is annoying enough for me to respond, but this is my last reply to this thread.

County X has two populations, the zarbs and the tiwks. The zarbs kill all the tiwks. The zarbs have been ethnically cleansed.

You may think this is a trivial point. But you're talking to an international audience, and you're talking about a subject where language is analysed in minute detail for perceived insult or support or whatnot.



No, that's genocide.

Genocide = Killing

Ethnic cleansing = Expulsion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide




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