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  • Our latest contributions to civilization are authentic Serbian neologisms such as "" ethnic cleansing '' and "" urbicide, '' which is what we Serbs did to Sarajevo and Vukovar.

    What It's Like Being A Serb 2008

  • Pappe details what he calls the "urbicide of Palestine" that included attacking and cleansing the major urban centers in the country.

    A Review of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe 2007

  • The urbicide continued into May with the occupation of Acre on the coast and Baysan in the East on May 6.

    A Review of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe 2007

  • Pappe details what he calls the "urbicide of Palestine" that included attacking and cleansing the major urban centers in the country.

    A Review of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe 2007

  • The urbicide continued into May with the occupation of Acre on the coast and Baysan in the East on May 6.

    A Review of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe 2007

  • Although be had himself lived by his sword for many years and had committed acts of murder, robbery and urbicide, he disliked the senselessness of wars such as this, of men who killed one another for only the vaguest of reasons.

    Stormbringer Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1963

  • Although be had himself lived by his sword for many years and had committed acts of murder, robbery and urbicide, he disliked the senselessness of wars such as this, of men who killed one another for only the vaguest of reasons.

    Storm Bringer Moorcock, Michael 1963

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