Wednesday, June 18, 2008
THE ORIGIN OF "ETHNIC CLEANSING"
The ugly term “ethnically clean” first appears in a 1982 New York Times article describing not some Serbian repression of Albanians, but the Albanian secessionist program of eliminating Serbs from Kosovo in order:
“to establish what they call an ethnically clean Albanian republic and then the merger with Albania to form a greater Albania.”
For obvious reasons not even the NYT mentions the NYT's publication of that as part of an article detailing the trouble immigration was producing in Kosovo. All such history has now been airbrushed out of western media history.
“to establish what they call an ethnically clean Albanian republic and then the merger with Albania to form a greater Albania.”
For obvious reasons not even the NYT mentions the NYT's publication of that as part of an article detailing the trouble immigration was producing in Kosovo. All such history has now been airbrushed out of western media history.
