While these rights and freedoms were grossly violated for millions of people by totalitarian Communist governments. genocide was not a real issuearrest. imprisonment. beatings. and other levels and types of State coercion and oppression were. Now. mass murder by ethnic militias not clearly under any States control is the issue. Now. ethnic militias. supported by armies. force people from their homes at bayonet point. filling the roads of Yugoslavia and the transCaucuses with a flow of refugees not seen in Europe since World War II. These people are fleeing. carrying all of their worldly possessions on their backs. with no real hope that they will ever be allowed to return to their homes. They run because their friends and neighbors have been the victims of indiscriminant artillery fire. air attacks. and small arms fire as one group of people tries to subjugateor exterminateanother group of people. just because they speak a different language and have a different religion.
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Generalization about ethnic militias forcing people from their homes.