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Ethnic cleansing generally meant
種族清洗通常意味著
the forced resettlement of minorities,
逼迫少數群體遷徙
often with extreme violence.
通常伴隨暴力
Yet the practice itself is literally ancient.
但是這種做法本身是比較古老的
The Jewish diaspora, the Babylonian captivity
猶太人的離散，巴比倫人被俘
was itself a form of ethnic cleansing,
從某種形式也算是種族清洗
as was King Mithridates of Pontus's murder
公元前88年本都國王
of 80,000 Romans in 88 BC.
殺害8萬羅馬人，也算是種族清洗
Both the Russians and the Soviet Union
俄羅斯人和蘇聯
relocated entire nations,
把整個國家都重新安置了
most often from the Caucuses
大部分人從核心位置
to remote parts of the Soviet Union.
遷移到了蘇聯偏遠的地區
Even the United States's shameful interment of
甚至美國在二戰期間
Japanese American citizens
對美籍的日本僑民
during the Second World War
進行的屠殺
comes under this category.
也可以歸入種族清洗名下
No empire is innocent on this one.
任何國家在這個問題上都脫不了干系
