Ethnic cleansing

Let s go back to the classification of the amino acid side chains (chapter 10). Several of these are hydrocarbons greasy, fat-like side chains. Look at the side chains of leucine, isoleucine, valine, and phenylalanine as examples. Eats and water do not mix. Eats are termed hydrophobic, water-hating. It follows that these side chains will try to do what they can to get out of contact with water. The obvious way to do this is to hide in the center of the protein structure, where they may enjoy the company of like-minded amino acid side chains and avoid that of water molecules—sort of a molecular ethnic cleansing. 

One can after all understand that these Polish authors made their careers in Communist Poland, and, as Polish patriots, can under no circumstances permit the undermining of Auschwitz as a moral justification for the Polish ethnic cleansing of the East Prussians, East Pomeranians, and Silesians after the end of World War Two, as a result... 

The Albigensian Crusade and subsequent ethnic cleansing by the Inquisition effectively eliminated both the Cathars of Southern France and the misnamed Great Heresy of the Bogomils. 

In a meeting opened by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2171 on conflict prevention. The Security Council expressed its commitment to prevent armed conflict as part of its primary responsibility to maintain international peace and security, and reaffirmed fhat each state has the responsibility to protect its population from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. 

Herbert C. Kelman, Negotiating National Identity and Self-determination in Ethnic Conflicts The Choice Between Pluralism and Ethnic Cleansing , 13 Negotiation Journal, (1997). 

The unusual combination of factors found in the Kosovo situation— including the context of Yugoslavia s breakup, the history of ethnic cleansing and crimes against civilians in Kosovo, and the extended period of UN administration—are not found elsewhere and therefore make Kosovo a special case. Kosovo cannot be seen as precedent for any other situation in the world today. 

Naimark, N. M. (2002) Fires of Hatred Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth Century Europe. Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press. 

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