Ethnic cleansing: Difference between revisions

*The [[Armenian Genocide]] perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire during [[World War I]] resulted in nearly 1.5 million Ottoman Armenians being displaced, sent to concentration camps, or killed outright.

*The 24-year occupation of East Timor by Indonesia, instigated by President [[Suharto]], was basically a two-decade long ethnic cleansing campaign against the people of East Timor, and is considered to be a genocide by Oxford and Yale Universities. Indonesian paramilitary groups, such as [[Aitarak]], killed or expelled large numbers of civilians. After the East Timorese people voted for independence in a 1999 referendum, the Indonesian paramilitaries retaliated, murdering some supporters of independence and leveling most towns. More than 200,000 people either fled or were forcibly taken to Indonesia before East Timor achieved full independence.

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