Ethnic cleansing

Ethnic cleansing has been described as a fairly a modern phenomenon – one that Michael Mann associates with modern democracies (Mann 5). Bearing in mind that culture and ethnicity are oft considered vague terms, for purposes of maintaining clarity, this essay will use Michael Mann’s definitions of ethnicity, ethnic cleansing, nation and nation state. Mann defines ethnicity as a group that defines itself or is defined by others as sharing common descent and culture, therefore ethnic cleansing is the removal by members of one such group of another such group from a locality they define as their own (Mann 11). Consequently, a nation is a group that also has political consciousness, claiming collective political rights in a given territory and…

319-331. Doubt uses a sociological lens to examine the ethnic cleansing in Serbia, stating that the root of ethnic cleansing lies in an “attempt to transform the public identities of individuals and a community.” (Doubt) This means to debase an individual or group into a lesser being(s) in the eyes of the witnesses, or the world community. This is the essence of how sociologists define “evil,” focusing on “evil’s parasitic relation to what does make sense, what is intelligible, and what is.”…

York Post published an article titled, “New York stands with Israel” where they put a quote from the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, saying “Hamas and other terrorist organizations continue to threaten Israel” and then the author of the article wrote, “We couldn’t agree more.” They are attempting to convey that Hamas threatens the livelihood of Israel. This is untrue for a multitude of reasons. Hamas was established as an Israeli resistance group in 1987, almost 40 years after Israel…

A Warrior’s Heart Ethnic cleansing has a very different effect on the people that live through it. It can spark a person to make a decision such as becoming a Navy SEAL. The title comes with rigorous training such as San Clemente. “‘ San Clemente is home to one of the largest breeding grounds for great white sharks in the world.’ We looked at one another and then at the water. I tried not to imagine the ocean frothing with blood. ‘ Now get in the water and swim.’said one of the instructors.”…

Ethnic cleansing is when there are many different ethnicities in a region and the majority attempt to eradicate the other ethnic groups. In the eyes of the majority, ethnic cleansing was used as a tool to “purify” the country by getting rid of the minority to establish ethnic homogeneity (“Ethnic Cleansing”). The term ethnic cleansing was first introduced during the conflict between the Serbians and the other ethnicities of Yugoslavia. The Bosnian genocide is a product of the extreme nationalism…

In 1992, the Bosnian Serb army with the support of the Yugoslav Army Serbia began an effort to ethnically cleanse all non-Serbian residents from a great deal of Bosnia. As a component of its ethnic cleansing operation, Bosnian Serb army used strategies such as systematic maltreatment through the use of things such as torture, murder, rape, harassment, unfairness, threats, displacement of people, confiscation and destruction of property, as well as the destruction of cultural objects such as…

Considering the Historical Thinking concept of Change and Continuity the events of the Holocaust connect to several other examples of ethnic cleansing we have studied during our History class. Over the course of history, the harm done to threatening nations has stayed the same, but the intensity of that has changed. Since the beginning of time countries have committed genocides to wash away the cultures that were stronger or bigger, but mainly better. In the days of the Bible, even the Egyptians…

Ethnic cleansing can take action through deportation, sterilization, and ultimately mass murders. The Holocaust performed by German Nazi’s, is considered to be one of the largest genocides to take place in the world. Due to the six million people murdered under the ruling of a government leader, Adolf Hitler, the Holocaust is considered both genocide and a democide. The Holocaust falls into par with scientist R. J. Rummel’s concept of democide. Scientist R. J. Rummel graphically constructed the…

Throughout the course of time, there were many genocides that devastated the population of a specific country. The city of Srebrenica was a long and unique history. In Srebrenica, Bosnia, thousands of people were killed in a war. The genocide and ethnic cleansing of Srebrenica was considered to be the worst genocide since World War II. The war began in 1992 and lasted for four years, until 1996. Muslims were forced to migrate out of Srebrenica, and those that failed to do so were executed. The…

most prolific mass killings of a race of people, genocide has happened many times after, and Genocide is even happening today. From the 1930’s, fast forward to the 1990’s, from the Holocaust in Germany to Bosnia and beyond. “January 30th, 1933: President Hindenberg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany” (2) , and this is considered to be the very beginning of the Holocaust. It was Hitler and the Nazi party who began the mass extinction of various groups and minorities as a part of a…