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At one time his ability to cloak people from danger would have helped keep Roman soldiers from seeing villages of people they might round up for their horrific gladiator games . . . or would have hidden men, women, and children from ethnic-cleansing roundups of the many holocausts this world has seen.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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At one time his ability to cloak people from danger would have helped keep Roman soldiers from seeing villages of people they might round up for their horrific gladiator games . . . or would have hidden men, women, and children from ethnic-cleansing roundups of the many holocausts this world has seen.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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For years the Iraqi police had been seen by Sunnis, with ample justification, as just another ethnic-cleansing Shia militia.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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Thers weighs in on the ethnic-cleansing quasi-debate and makes a good point:
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For years the Iraqi police had been seen by Sunnis, with ample justification, as just another ethnic-cleansing Shia militia.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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For years the Iraqi police had been seen by Sunnis, with ample justification, as just another ethnic-cleansing Shia militia.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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For years the Iraqi police had been seen by Sunnis, with ample justification, as just another ethnic-cleansing Shia militia.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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Led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Israel is adamant to continue the ever-expanding land grab driven by illegal home demolitions and confiscations, daily dreadful human rights abuses at check points, random imprisonment and assassinations, suppression of independent media, and systematic ethnic-cleansing of Palestinians.
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But would they naturally spill over to the ethnic-cleansing that is taking place now?
The Morningside Post: Ethnicity Amidst the Violence in Kyrgyzstan: A Closer Look 2010
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Grossman's unsparing, literary account of the horrific ways Nazi Germany implemented its ethnic-cleansing program at Treblinka was one of the first reports of a death camp anywhere in Europe and eventually provided prosecutors at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal with crucial background information.
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