ethnic cleansing
ethnic cleansing — 名詞
1. a planned effort by one racial or religious group to drive out, or sometimes kil
種族清洗
強迫驅逐或殺害某地區特定族群以求單一族群
a planned effort by one racial or religious group to drive out, or sometimes kill, all the people of another group living in a region so that only their own group remains
The court ruled that the army's attacks on the villages amounted to ethnic cleansing.
法院裁定，軍隊對那些村莊的攻擊構成種族清洗。
amounted to ethnic cleansing — describing an act as this crime
Thousands of families fled across the border to escape the ethnic cleansing.
成千上萬個家庭逃過邊境，以躲避這場種族清洗。
flee to escape the ethnic cleansing — typical victim context
Niran reported on the ethnic cleansing for an international newspaper.
Niran 為一家國際報社報導這場種族清洗。
World leaders condemned the ethnic cleansing and demanded that it stop at once.
各國領袖譴責這場種族清洗，並要求立即停止。
Historians have studied the ethnic cleansing that emptied the city of its minority population.
歷史學家研究了這場讓全城少數族群消失的種族清洗。
- genocide
stronger; centres on mass killing aimed at destroying a whole people, while ethnic cleansing centres on forced removal
- expulsion
neutral term for forcing people out; lacks the racial-targeting and violence built into ethnic cleansing
- deportation
official removal across a border; can be lawful, whereas ethnic cleansing is always a crime
用法筆記
Almost always uncountable and used in serious news, legal, or historical contexts. Common verbs are 'carry out', 'commit', 'condemn', and 'amount to'; the agent is usually an army, militia, or government.