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Entrance to Auschwitz

Ethnic Cleansing

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  • Concentration Camp Liberation
    Concentration Camp Liberation

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    As Allied troops move across Europe, they encounter the horror of thousands of prisoners in Nazi camps.

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  • Rwanda: Background to Genocide
    Rwanda: Background to Genocide

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    Years of ethnic hostility brings the African nation to the brink.

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  • Rwanda: The World Reacts
    Rwanda: The World Reacts

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    In 1994, the international community is slow to end an African genocide.

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  • Rwanda: Remembrance and Reconciliation
    Rwanda: Remembrance and Reconciliation

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    The African nation struggles to come to grips with the aftermath of genocide.

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  • Kofi Annan on NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia
    Kofi Annan on NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia

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    On March 24, 1999, NATO began bombing Serbian military points after receiving reports of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo by Serb forces. Unable to get Yugoslav authorities to agree to a political settlement, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan ordered NATO's action. In a speech before the United Nations, Annan explains that there are times when one must use force in the pursuit of peace.

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The term ethnic cleansing came into wide usage in the 1990s, to describe the treatment suffered by particular ethnic groups during conflicts that erupted in Bosnia-Herzegovina and other parts of the former Yugoslavia.

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