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Armenian extremists, intermittently committing ethnic cleansings as well as acts of physical and moral terror against the people of Azerbaijan, have invaded 20 percent of our territories, banished more than one million Azerbaijanis from their home places.

Khojaly genocide has been recognized by 13 countries. Ethnic cleansing carried out by Armenia resulted in more than one million Azerbaijanis becoming refugees and internally displaced persons. (...) Racist ideology cultivated in Armenian society based on ethnic hatred and demonization is the root cause of ethnic cleansing and unprecedented vandalism in the formerly occupied lands of Azerbaijan by Armenia.

NRC, which has been helpful also in the Puttalam District, which had been long neglected by successive governments, will also be aware that the current government is finally trying to address the concerns of the Muslim population driven out of the Northern Province in the nineties by the LTTE, in its only, thankfully never repeated, stab at ethnic cleansing. Given such threats however, we trust the NRC will accept the need to liberate the suffering people of the North also from LTTE oppression.

Through asserting “the self determination of the Nagorno-Karabakh people” the Armenian side confirms once again that Armenia is on the path of achieving the annexation of Azerbaijani territories that it captured using military force and in which it has carried out ethnic cleansing. The realization of self-determination provided for the independence of colonial territories and could also be applied in the case of foreign occupation. (...) The content of the mentioned document pertaining to “the ethnic cleansing of Armenians and unleashing a war against Armenia” represents none other than yet more mere verbiage uselessly rending the air against the background of the facts irrefutably testifying to the opposite. (...) But unfortunately, as the result of expulsion of Azerbaijanis and ethnic cleansing there are no Azerbaijanis in Armenia.

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The occupation of regions of Georgia by the Russian Federation has been recognized by the international community. 2 It __________________ 1 Namely, as a result of the ethnic cleansings of 1991 -1993 and 1998, approximately 450 000 persons were expelled from places of their permanent residence: approximately 20 000 persons from the Tskhinvali Region/South Ossetia, Georgia in 1991-1992; approximately 370 000 persons from Abkhazia, Georgia in 1992-1993; and approximately 60 000 from the Gali district Abkhazia, Georgia in 1998. In addition, as a result of ethnic cleansing during the 2008 August War and its aftermath, tens of thousands IDPs and refugees from the Akhalgori district and its adjacent areas , as well as Kodori Gorge/Upper Abkhazia were expelled from places of their permanent residence. 2 For example, “Resolution on the Situation in Georgia” (2012), Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE PA), paragraphs 4 and 7; “European Parliament Resolution on the Conclusion of the Association Agreement with Georgia”, 18 December 2014, European Parliament, paragraphs D and 11; “European Parliament Resolution on the Negotiations of the EU-Georgia Association Agreement”, 17 November 2011, European Parliament, A/HRC/29/G/3 3/13 GE. 15-09934 should be noted with particular emphasis, that recently the Russian Federation signed the so called “Treaty on Alliance and Strategic Partnership" with its occupation regime in Sokhumi and the so called “Treaty on Alliance and Integration” with its occupation regime in Tskhinvali: thus going well beyond its military occupation and laying ground for annexation 3 of Georgian territories. Since the August War of 2008, the international community has been calling on the Russian Federation to bear responsibility for violations of human rights in the territories of Georgia which are under Russia’s effective control.4 The UN Human Rights Committee issued recommendations to the Russian Federation on the issue at its 97th (2009) and 113th (2015) sessions. 5 According to the European Parliament, “whereas Russia [in 2014] continues to occupy the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia, in violation of the fundamental norms and principles of international law; whereas ethnic cleansing and forcible demographic changes have taken place in the areas under the effective control of the occupying forces, which bear the responsibility for human rights violations in these areas, including violations of the rights to free movement, people-to-people contacts and education in one’s native language.”6 1.3 Occupation line and installation of barbed wire fences The occupation line along the administrative boundary line (ABL) with Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali Region separates Georgia from its two occupied territories.

The events in Kosovo and Metohija that took place from March 17 to March 19,2004, assuming the proportions of a pogrom and ethnic cleansing of Kosovo Serbs, unveiled the failure of the U.N. (...) The post-war period aside, the largest Kosovo Serb migration wave was recorded precisely in the early 1980s. The major ethnic cleansing of Serbs took place before the March 17 pogrom - they were brutally driven out of their homes after June 1999. (...) In other words, the Serbs would be entitled to parts of the territory that links in a natural way Serb- dominated settlements, in which they previously did not make up a majority, but to which the Serbs exiled from their homes during the ethnic cleansing operation tend to return. This is a major precondition for the future areas of territorial autonomy to have the characteristics of a region.

Sumgait represented the focal point of the genocidal policies conducted by the Azerbaijani leaders against Armenians, one inevitable result of which was the “cleansing” of the Nakhichevan region and other historically Armenian territories of their Armenian populations.

In all parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, forced displacement was deliberately used by the warring parties to create ethnically homogeneous areas, which constitutes a crime against humanity now commonly referred to as “ethnic cleansing”. At the end of the conflict in 1995, more than 2.2 million persons, i.e. almost half of the country’s E/CN.4/2006/71/Add.4 page 8 inhabitants, had been uprooted. (...) Also, contrary to Annex 7 to the Dayton Peace Agreement, political institutions at entity, cantonal or municipal level refrained from supporting minority returns or even opposed them actively with the aim of maintaining or continuing “ethnic cleansing”. Although substantial financial aid to assist and sustain returns was available at the time due to the international community’s focus on return, the political will to use it was missing. 15. (...) In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the international community through the Dayton Peace Agreement has clearly prioritized return over local integration in order not to legitimize “ethnic cleansing”. Returnees are entitled, according to guiding principle 29, to be protected against discrimination and to recover their property or to receive compensation for lost property. 34.