During the late eighties and early nineties, the government committed ethnic cleansing of some groups of Afro-Mauritanians, and used Haratin soldiers to kill, torture, or deport them.
In response to the news that the university would grant Kushner an honorary degree after all, Wiesenfeld repeated his claim that the playwright had uttered a "blood libel against the Jewish people" by accusing Israel of having committed ethnic cleansing.
He was arrested for shouting "Sieg heil" and "kill the liberals" in public, and served three years in jail for committing ethnic hate crimes: in a 2006 video distributed by his group, people in Ku Klux Klan robes performed a mock execution of a Central Asian drug dealer by hanging and dismembering him.
For some it was no coincidence that the bombs had gone off at the same time that Israel was being denounced at the United Nations conference on racism in Durban, South Africa, where it has been called a racist colonial power and an "apartheid regime" that has committed "ethnic cleansing and other acts of genocide" against the Palestinians.
In response to the news that the university was likely to grant Kushner an honorary degree after all, Wiesenfeld repeated his claim that the playwright had uttered a "blood libel against the Jewish people" by accusing Israel of having committed ethnic cleansing.
"Burmese security forces are committing ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya and disregarding the condemnation of world leaders," said John Sifton, HRW's Asia advocacy director.
The offensive provoked accusations that Croatian troops had committed ethnic cleansing and civil-rights abuses; these accusations were disproven by a European Community Monitor Mission (ECMM) report after an ECMM team tour of the area captured by Croatian forces two days after the offensive ended.
Social constructivists explain the tremendous atrocities committed during ethnic conflicts—such as genocide, mass rape, and ethnic cleansing by the fact that, by virtue of ethnicity, ultimately everyone becomes involved in the struggle, regardless of their intent.
Some foreign coverage of the unrest played down the violence committed by ethnic Tibetans, but reported the story of continued Chinese repression.
I do not adhere to the view that the murder of millions of people is more acceptable when politically motivated than when committed for ethnic reasons.
