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What is the difference between ethnic cleansing and genocide?

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Ethnic cleansing is the act of removing an ethnic group from an area, while genocide is the mass killing of a group of people.

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To be specific, the end goal of genocide is complete destruction of a particular group, while ethnic cleansing is an expulsion of the group from a certain area, often encouraged by violence. While ethnic cleansing technically isn't usually a crime (although the behaviors it describes are), genocide is.There you go!

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