Iako je strahotama iz 1990-tih u svjetski vokabular uveden termin "etničko čišćenje", to nije bilo prvi put da je protjerivanjima i istrebljenjima mijenjana demografija u zemlji.
While the atrocities of the 1990s introduced the term "ethnic cleansing" to the world's vocabulary, this was not the first time that expulsions and exterminations altered the country's demographics.