Ethnic cleansing is how a bigger and more powerful ethnic group takes out and removes a less powerful group to try to create a region of only that more powerful group. In some cases, genocide was used in order for this to happen.

        

 

 

 

 

       Ethnic cleansing has occurred greatly in the Balkans. In Bosnia the Serbs and Croats didn't want to be part of a multiethnic state. They wanted to cleanse out Bosnian Muslims so there would only be Bosnian Serbs instead. This created the domination of Bosnian Serbs. The problem is that since there are many ethnicities still present with hate toward eachother, it has been unsuccessful which is where the word "Blakanized" came from.

      

 

 

 

 

       

 

         Genocide in Central Africa occurred in places such as Rwanda and in the Congo. In Rwanda you had the Hutus murdering thousands of Tutsis in 1994. This conflict ended up spreading to the Congo and it was even allowed that the Tutsis people could kill the Hutus people. In Sub-Saharan Africa (Northern area) the Darfur African Americans had a rebellion. The Sudan government crushed the rebellion by killing over 480,000 of them and having over 2.8 million of them in refugee camps. This is considered a genocide attack by the Sudan Government.