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On The Legal Construction Of Ethnic Cleansing, Timothy V. Waters
On The Legal Construction Of Ethnic Cleansing, Timothy V. Waters
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On the Legal Construction of Ethnic Cleansing
Timothy William Waters, Univ. Mississippi School of Law
Abstract
What is the true shape of our commitment to prohibit ethnic cleansing? This Article explores that question by considering a case observers have universally decided does not constitute ethnic cleansing. It examines the recent controversy in the European Union, when Sudeten Germans demanded that the Czech Republic apologize for having expelled them after WWII before being admitted to the EU. Their demands were universally rejected and the legality of the expulsions was reconfirmed by all relevant actors. So what is the consequence for customary …