social cleansing
n.— «Noam Chomsky argues that “Mumia’s case is symbolic of something much broader…The US prison system is simply class and race war…Mumia and other prisoners are the kind of people that get assassinated by what’s called ‘social cleansing’ in US client states like Colombia.”» —“Freiheit für Mumia Abu-Jamal!” by Hans Bennett Dissedent Voice (Santa Rosa, California) Nov. 24, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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