Of all the horrors of the last century - perhaps the bloodiest century of the past millennium - ethnic cleansing ranks among the worst. The term burst forth in public discourse in the spring of 1992 as a way to describe Serbian attacks on the Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina, but as this landmark book attests, ethnic cleansing is neither new nor likely to cease in our time.

"Along with consolidating the nationalists' power and control, Kemal's successes sealed the fate of the Greeks in Anatolia. Ethnic cleansing was already part and parcel of the expulsion of the Greek expeditionary force in August and September 1922. Greeks were not only expelled from western Anatolia and Smyrna but were moved out of towns and villages in the interior, out of Cilicia in the south, and out of the heavily Greek Pontic region along the Black Sea coast. The process of forced deportation was violent and bitter. In a familiar pattern, the Greeks were given a few hours to a few days to pack up and leave for ports on the coast, Samsun primarily but also Sinop and Trabzon, where they were to be transported to Constantinople and beyond to Greece and the islands. Underway, they were sometimes harassed and attacked by bandits, robbed, and beaten; women and girls were raped and sometimes carried off. The general lawlessness which was rife in the Pontic mountains was particularly hard on the Greeks."

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