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Ethnic cleansing generally meant
种族清洗通常意味着
the forced resettlement of minorities,
逼迫少数群体迁徙
often with extreme violence.
通常伴随暴力
Yet the practice itself is literally ancient.
但是这种做法本身是比较古老的
The Jewish diaspora, the Babylonian captivity
犹太人的离散，巴比伦人被俘
was itself a form of ethnic cleansing,
从某种形式也算是种族清洗
as was King Mithridates of Pontus's murder
公元前88年本都国王
of 80,000 Romans in 88 BC.
杀害8万罗马人，也算是种族清洗
Both the Russians and the Soviet Union
俄罗斯人和苏联
relocated entire nations,
把整个国家都重新安置了
most often from the Caucuses
大部分人从核心位置
to remote parts of the Soviet Union.
迁移到了苏联偏远的地区
Even the United States's shameful interment of
甚至美国在二战期间
Japanese American citizens
对美籍的日本侨民
during the Second World War
进行的屠杀
comes under this category.
也可以归入种族清洗名下
No empire is innocent on this one.
任何国家在这个问题上都脱不了干系
