Sentence examples for sectarian cleansing from inspiring English sources
There is ethnic and sectarian cleansing.
Still, Christians and other minorities were singled out in the years of sectarian cleansing that bifurcated a once-diverse Baghdad into pockets of Sunnis and Shiites.
Many neighborhoods in Baghdad have become largely Shiite or Sunni, as one group drove the other out in calculated sectarian cleansing.
"When we look at the prospects, one that we all have to face is that this conflict is creating a large risk of sectarian cleansing.
Sunni Arabs like the Saudis have every reason to accuse the Bush administration of being slow to realize it was backing a political process in Iraq that has led to the broad sectarian "cleansing" of Sunnis in key cities like Baghdad and that has so far deprived them of a fair share of political power and Iraq's wealth.
But as we've seen with the massive sectarian cleansing that has occurred and the internal displacement that remains, our presence in Iraq is not sufficient to prevent humanitarian disasters, either.
Overwhelming ethno-sectarian cleansing?
Their decision to co-operate with America for the time being has had little impact on the sectarian killing and cleansing in mixed areas.
Millions of citizens were displaced, neighbourhoods were cleansed along sectarian lines, and an entire population numbed by unchecked brutality.
State television said Assad's forces were "cleansing the terrorist filth" from the country, which has been sucked into an increasingly sectarian conflict that has killed about 18,000 people and could spill into neighbouring states.
