Yet conflict and ethnic cleansing in the 1990s forced the troupe to disband for a decade.
SIX weeks after Mwai Kibaki stole an election, the bloodshed and ethnic cleansing in swathes of Kenya are getting frighteningly worse.
A decade of civil war and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia completed the process.
Elsewhere around the globe, there was a civil war in Somalia, genocide in Rwanda, and ethnic cleansing in the place formerly known as Yugoslavia.
Milosevic and ethnic cleansing in Kosovo?
The figure represents a fraction of the estimated 1.5 million Iraqis who fled to Syria in recent years to escape the sectarian violence and ethnic cleansing in Iraq.
I am deeply concerned with the genocide in Darfur and neighboring Chad, as I was with the genocide and ethnic cleansing in Rwanda, Bosnia and Cambodia.
And, when Europe was again disfigured by concentration camps and ethnic cleansing, in the Balkans, we waited for years before pacifying Bosnia and, later, Kosovo with aerial bombardments.
On the contrary, it will be a resumption of a brutal war that was begun in 1991 and was largely over before the siege of Sarajevo and the horrors and ethnic cleansing in neighboring Bosnia began in 1992.
Assuming critical details can be worked out with Belgrade, more than a million displaced ethnic Albanians should be able to return home safely later this year and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans will stop.
