"cleansing" was invented by flacks on the side doing the "genocide" to make sound like it was a good thing. And it's not.

when reporters use the term they are somewhat condoning it - call it what it is - genocide - so people will know what's truly happening.

sugar coated media - that's ridiculous that they actually go along with that terminology still.

I'm with you both. I wish the media would see this somehow.

it's ignorant on their part and is ultimately falsifying what they're reporting to their viewers. I rarely watch the news nowadays anyway.

why call it any of those terms? what's wrong with plain old murder?

They try to desensitize the situations unfortunately.

it is murder, but genocide is appropriate term because it is murder of an entire race of people. But agrees about "ethnic cleansing."