Ethnic conflict can sometimes lead to ethnic cleansing and genocide. What is ethnic cleansing and genocide? Give one example of a case of ethnic cleansing.
What will be an ideal response?
Students should first define ethnic cleansing (which occurs when one group forcibly removes another by violence or deportation) and genocide (the extreme action of ethnic cleansing where one group seeks to deliberately kill members of another group based solely on their national or ethnic differences). Students should then give one example of ethnic cleansing, which may include the massacre of Muslims in Bosnia, the Jewish Holocaust, the killings by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, actions of the Sudanese government in Darfur, or other instances.
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