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The European Journal of Public Health 2007 17(6):546-547; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckm080
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

Commentaries

‘Ethnic cleansing’ and ‘genocide’

Robert M. Hayden

Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, USA

Correspondence: Dr Robert M. Hayden, Center for Russian & East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15260, USA, tel: +1-412-648-7407, fax: +1-412-648-7002, e-mail: rhayden@pitt.edu

Received June 7, 2007, accepted June 16, 2007

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

The recent article by Blum et al.1 on ethnic cleansing and genocide is based in part on data that published studies have shown to be inaccurate, and contains at least one misleading statement. When these problems are corrected, their argument fails.

The inaccurate data are that 200 000 were killed in the 1992–1995 Bosnian war (Abstract, p. 2, p. 3, fig. 1, fig. 2). The source for this number (per note 26) is www.genocidewatch.org, a web site maintained by author Stanton. That site . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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