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Ethnic Cleansing Article
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Armenia (1914-1923)

During the beginning of World War I in 1914, following defeats from the Russian army due to a lack of proper leadership and preparation, the Ottoman Empire banished all Armenian soldiers in desperation with the belief that they were the ones to blame for the defeats. (Credo, Ethnic) What began as a military tactic, eventually lead to a brutal genocide of the ethnic Armenian people living in Turkey beginning with the execution of male Armenians and eventually the forced deportation Armenian women and children. (Credo genocide) It is estimated around 800,000 to 1 million ethnic Armenians living in Turkey were either executed or forcibly deported during World War 1. The Armenian Genocide has been recognized as a genocide by most scholars and nations due to its deliberate targeting of ethnic Armenians and the brutal fashion in which it was implemented and has been viewed as a form of Ethnic Cleansing due to the Ottoman Empire's desire to rid a specific ethnicity from their territory. (Frey)

Jews in Germany (1933-1945)

From 1941 through 1945, recognized as one of the most extreme cases of ethnic cleansing, the Holocaust was the Nazi Regime's mass murder of about 6 million Jews during World War II. Accomplished in stages, the Holocaust began with legislation to remove Jews from society before World War II. Concentration and extermination camps were then created to execute the millions of Jews living in Germany either through shootings, gas chambers, or being worked to death. (Berenbaum) Killing approximately 90 percent of the Jews living in Poland and 87 percent of the Jews living in Germany and Austria, the Nazi Regime's motives, the horrific fashion of execution, and the number of ethnic Jews murdered make the Holocaust one of the clearest and undisputed cases of ethnic cleansing in history. (Davidowicz)

Germans from Eastern Europe (1944-1949)

Following World War II, from 1944 to 1949, approximately 14 million Germans were forcibly removed from Central and Eastern Europe, primarily German citizens who had settled in territories captured by the Nazi Regime during World War II in areas such as Poland, the Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia. (Credo Ethnic) Although the conflict consisting primarily of forced migration, approximately 2 million Germans were killed during the migration from either starvation, poor weather conditions, or beatings and murder at the hands of troops and mobs consisting of Russians, Poles, Czechs or other locals. The ethnic cleansing of Germans in Eastern an Central Europe can be explained by the hatred and negative sentiment towards Germans following the Nazi Regime's inhumane acts during the course of World War II and also by the desire of European countries to create a more ethnically homogenous nation-state. (Prauser)

Bosnia (1990-1993) - (Use picture from Ethnic cleansing of Bosnia)

During the Bosnian War from 1992-1995, many civilians fell victim to the ethnic cleansing that took part between Bosnian Serbs, Bosnian Croats, and Bosnian Muslims. All three of the ethnic groups sought for ethnically homogenous territories within Bosnia and Herzegovina displacing about 2,700,000 people within the country. The methods used during the Bosnian ethnic cleansing campaigns included "murder, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, extra-judicial executions, rape and sexual assaults, confinement of civilian population in ghetto areas, forcible removal, displacement and deportation of civilian population, deliberate military attacks or threats of attacks on civilians and civilian areas, and wanton destruction of property". (Report of the Commission of Experts) Creating the largest flow of internally displaced citizens since World War II, the ethnic cleansing that occurred in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1990s is still apparent in the ethnically homogeneous regions of Bosnian Serbs, Croats, and Muslims that exist in modern day Bosnia with politicans attempting to obstruct the undoing of the ethnic cleansing that took place during the war. (Credo)

Myanmar (2010s)

Since 2016, Myanmar's military dominated government has forced the removal of over 620,000 ethnic Rohingya living in the Rakhine state of northwest Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh. (credo) The Rohingya are a group of about 1 million muslims living in the Rakhine state who have faced persecution and discrimination from the government of Myanmar and Buddhist nationalists by being restricted access to citizenship and treated as illegal immigrants (The Guardian). The Myanmar government has cracked down on the Rohingya people and forced them migrate to Bangladesh through violent action, with rape, arson and murder being reported. (The Independent) UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein has stated in regard to the situation that “The situation seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing” while governments across the world have called on Myanmar's government to take control of the situation and stop the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people.(United Nations)

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Evaluating content Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you? - The article seemed very straight-forward and relevant to the article topic with all the subsections relating to negationism and aiding the article. Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added? - The article does a very good job covering examples of historical negationism from the early 1900s to the more recent examples. I think the only thing missing that could be added are more recent examples however or potentially examples that are disagreed upon whether it is an example of negationism or not. What else could be improved? - I think the order and organization of the examples could be improved. Some of the examples are titled the countries in which they stem from, while others are just the title of the historical incident. Evaluating tone Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? - The article is very neural since most of the examples of negationism are not arguments but simply just stating undeniable examples of history being omitted. Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? - One viewpoint that is technically missing is any support for the governments for suppressing certain literature, for example, there isn't much writing on why governments thought the negationism was a good idea. Evaluating sources Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article? - From the few citations I checked, the links work and the sources definitely seem to help the article's credibility. Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted? - Many of the facts are referenced appropriately and the sources have been reliable and neutral news websites like BBC. Checking the talk page

What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? -The conversations seem to simply be discussing what is considered to be negationism and where the term comes from How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? - The article is rated C-Class and apart of Wikiprojects on history, skepticism, and alternate views. How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? - Wikipedia discussed this topic in a very basic way simply just talking about negationism as a whole.