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.
Mada je tokom zločina devedesetih godina uveden termin "etničko čišćenje" u svetski rečnik, to nije bio prvi put da su proterivanja i istrebljenja izmenila demografsku sliku zemlje.