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Example Of Ethnocide

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Throughout history, there have been examples of ethnocide, some are mentioned in the reader. First, mosques, a library in Sarajevo, and other Muslim cultural symbols were destroyed by the Serbians. This was used to show how the Serbians aspired to eliminate the Bosnian Muslims. This is an example of ethnocide because Serbians are destroying such sacred cultural items. Without their cultural architecture and symbols, they are suppressed. Another example is in the case of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and citizens of his country who were of Asian descent. Amin enacted a law where these people who lose their property and leave the country within 90 days, or they would be sent to distant, dry areas to work as farmers. As stated by Shaw, this falls
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