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Describes Ethiopia's expulsion of people with Eritrean heritage as a moderate form of ethnic cleansing. A historical overview of Ethiopia discusses Haile Mariam Menghistu's regime's movement of large ethnic communities around Ethiopia's provinces, & analyzes President Meles Zenawi's regime's initial preservation of Ethiopian-Eritrean relations & his later decision to adopt a more belligerent attitude toward Eritrean peoples living in Ethiopia. The May-June 1998 battles between Ethiopian & Eritrean forces in the Badme region are discussed. Although US President Bill Clinton's intervention calmed Ethiopian-Eritrean relations, Ethiopia's expulsion of people with Eritrean heritage reignited ethnic tensions. While Ethiopian officials claimed that those being expelled were armed spies, several anecdotes invalidate this assertion. Although the Eritrean government has embraced & provided some financial assistance for the expelled people, the issue of housing these individuals remains an immediate problem. It is suggested that the current Ethiopian government is slowly heading toward dissolution as a result of increased ethnic tensions. J. W. Parker

How ethnic is "ethnic cleansing"? From Cyprus to Andalusia, Ireland to Bosnia, Pakistan to Palestine, Jack Goody finds religion -- inherently threatened by apostasy or conversion -- a stronger marker of communal conflict & mass expulsion than an ill-defined ethnicity. Adapted from the source document.

Ethnic cleansing is a complex phenomenon that can be understood at multiple levels. Ethnic cleansing is intricately connected to state creation & elite power politics. It has been linked to the international principles of the homogenous sovereign state & national self-determination, & operates in the space between them, posing a formidable challenge to those that seek to end its practice. In Kosovo, the rhetorical power of the term "ethnic cleansing" & politics over its use further complicated these efforts. Ethnic cleansing will persist as long as the nationally homogenous sovereign state is held as the ideal form of political organization, sovereignty is legitimated on the basis of national self-determination, & gaps in international law hinder the development of a policy to prevent its use. Adapted from the source document.

This editorial discusses the need to confront ethnic cleansing in the 21st century, deploring the fact that the 20th century saw the slaughter of as many as 170 million human beings in numerous episodes of such "cleansing" worldwide. Following a brief history of ethnic cleansing, its causes & progressive nature are discussed. The question is posed of whether it can be stopped. Several types of activity that might lead toward this vital change in human behavior are outlined, but it is concluded that the most important element in this task is human will. The document, The Stockholm Accords on Ethnic Cleansing, is presented following the article. S. Stanton