Editing Ethnic cleansing (section)

[[File:Blog photo emergency refugee camp supplies.jpg|thumb|A refugee camp showing victims of the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in Myanmar.]]'''Ethnic cleansing''' is the act of forcibly removing a certain ethnic, religious, or racial group from a given territory, usually by government mandate. The forces applied may be various forms of forced migration (deportation, population transfer), intimidation, as well as [[genocide]] and [[genocidal rape]].

Ethnic cleansing is usually accompanied with efforts to remove physical and cultural evidence of the targeted group in the territory through the destruction of homes, social centers, farms, and infrastructure, and by the desecration of monuments, cemeteries, and places of worship.

Under international law, ethnic cleansing is defined as a [[crime against humanity]]. The gross human-rights violations integral to stricter definitions of ethnic cleansing are treated as separate crimes falling under public international law of crimes against humanity and in certain circumstances genocide.