We should, however, not forget that ethnic cleansing, especially of nonwhite Muslim peoples, has old historical roots in Russia. John Dunlop, for instance, reminds us that “in May 1856, Count Kiselev, minister of state domains, informed officials in the Crimea that Alexander [tsar Alexander II] was interested in ‘cleansing’ (Kiselev used the verb oshishchat’) Crimea of as many Tatars as possible.” That the tsarist empire was interested in annexing foreign lands, but not in annexing foreign peoples, was expressed by the famous remark of a tsarist minister that “Russia needs Armenia, but she has no need of Armenians.” [192] .Anonymous
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"Ethnic cleansing" is the practice of forcibly removing an ethnic group from a geographical area by force. Ethnic cleansing is often carried out by governments or militant groups who want to make their land ethnically homogeneous. The term ethnic cleansing was coined by the Jewish journalist of Turkish descent Joseph “Yitzhak" Malul in his work “The Arrogance of Nations,†which appeared in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on January 13, 1982. The term came into wide use after the start of the Bosnian War, when Serb forces systematically sought to expel non-Serb population from areas under their control.
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