It came after Baghdad was ethnically cleansed and after the tribes came to us.
Both tribes and larger societies feel cleansed after these punitive, diverting, intoxicating dramas, but the bad stuff that got them worked up in the first place goes on after the orgy of rage has come and gone.
I cannot remember one thing.' Because of Jezero's proximity to the Serb border, it was among the first places to be 'ethnically cleansed' after fighting erupted in April 1992.
Despite 40 years of being a Bosnian, after being "ethnically cleansed" from our Sarajevo home at the beginning of the Bosnian civil war and then erased from government records, my family and I now celebrate the day when we arrived in the United States and became — in our hearts, and soon thereafter in American government records — nonhyphenated Americans.
In other signs that the move by Morsi may have a wider significance, many carried printed sheets of paper demanding that Egypt's media, which have been generally hostile to the decree, should also be "cleansed" after Morsi's moves against the judiciary on Thursday, which saw him sack the Mubarak-era chief prosecutor.
The Ovation of the Seas will need to be "comprehensively sanitised and cleansed" after some 200 people were hit with gastro as the ship pulled into port in Tasmania on Tuesday.
Like Alic, Serif Velic also joined the 17 Krajiske 'ethnically cleansed' brigade after suffering in the camps.
Today that document, framed in silver, is piled among yellowing college textbooks and other outgrown possessions in a storage room in the basement, a few feet from the washing machine; loads of our dirty laundry rinsing and spinning and emerging cleansed, year after year, all under the benevolent gaze of Pope John Paul II.
Witnesses believe that a "little flock" go to heaven, but that the hope for life after death for the majority of "other sheep" involves being resurrected by God to a cleansed earth after Armageddon.
Raed Jabouri, governor of Salahuddin province, of which Tikrit is the capital, pointed to the return of more than 80 families to the nearby towns of Al-Alam and Al-Jalam, taken last week, after they had been "cleansed," according to a statement on the governor's official Facebook page.
