It was in towns along the way like Rogatica, 60 miles east of Sarajevo, that Serbs set about on what their extremists call "ethnic purification."

Is it a coincidence that the 20th century, which has seen the continued rise of nationalism, has also witnessed repeated convulsions of ethnic purification?

When Serbian gunmen go door to door, pulling Muslim Slavs from their homes at gunpoint and herding them aboard cattle trucks, they call it "ethnic purification."

Synonyms include ethnic purification.

Other civil rights leaders accused the Moguls of whitewashing, even ethnic purification.

But while the NAACP was busy accusing the Moguls of segregation, there was another kind of ethnic purification going on in the plastic hallways of the television business.

But if Sarajevo falls, none of us will escape, for the folly of ethnic purification will be unleashed everywhere.

That is clearly the principle Mr. Grujic is working on as he puts the finishing touches to the ethnic purification of the region.

He suggested that he was ready to fight to stop the sort of ethnic purification that reached a new apogee at Srebrenica last week.

Ethnic cleansing (or ethnic purification)