英语词汇ethnic cleansing的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

ethnic cleansing. The most terrible euphemism coined since the Final Solution of the Nazis, ethnic cleansing, first recorded in 1991, less than 50 years after Hitler, refers to genocide or mass murder of one religious or ethnic group by another. It is a translation of the Serbo-Croat word meaning the same. Under a policy of ethnic cleansing, in the fighting between Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Muslims, thousands were killed or expelled from scores of towns and villages. See linguistic cleansing; holocaust.

词汇	ethnic cleansing
词源	ethnic cleansing. The most terrible euphemism coined since the Final Solution of the Nazis, ethnic cleansing, first recorded in 1991, less than 50 years after Hitler, refers to genocide or mass murder of one religious or ethnic group by another. It is a translation of the Serbo-Croat word meaning the same. Under a policy of ethnic cleansing, in the fighting between Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Muslims, thousands were killed or expelled from scores of towns and villages. See linguistic cleansing; holocaust.
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