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Article: Confronting ethnic cleansing in the twenty-first century.
- Article from:
- Journal of Church and State
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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The slaughter of as many as 170 million human beings in countless episodes of ethnic cleansing qualifies the twentieth century as one of the darkest eras in human history. The century was the most successful in all of history in terms of technological advance--it witnessed the revolutionary appearances of the airplane, the automobile, the radio, the television, the computer, the Internet, and space travel--but it far surpassed previous centuries in evidencing humankind's willingness to utterly annihilate one another in the name of racial, ethnic, and religious difference.
Wherein lie the roots of our capacity to destroy one another on such a massive scale? More ...