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"Ethnic Cleansing" has become one of the key terms of the fin-de-siècle. In the former territory of Yugoslavia, along the fringes of the old Soviet Empire, and in Africa, whole populations are being murdered or forced from lands they have lived on for centuries. Andrew Bell-Fialkoff explains the history of this obscene practice, tracing it from antiquity to the present and showing how, in different times and places, the most varied criteria have been used to isolate and destroy previously accepted or even completely unnoticed groups. "Cleansing" has been based on race, gender, class, sexual preference, and religion and has been a constant evil in world history. The need to understand its reemergence in the wake of communism's collapse is at the center of this important book.

Andrew Bell-Fialkloff explains the history of ethnic cleansing showing how varied criteria have been used to isolate and destroy previously accepted or unnoticed groups. 'Cleansing' based on race, gender, class, sexual preference and religion, has been a constant evil in world history. The need to understand its emergence in the wake of communism's collapse is at the centre of this important book. Bell-Fialkoff analyses the practice of population transfer and how it could ease ethnic strife in certain situations.

Explains the history of the practice of ethnic cleansing, tracing it from antiquity to the present day and examining its reemergence in the wake of communism's collapse