Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20190408212907/@comment-8458738-20190503032031

RuneLai wrote: Ethnic cleansing is forcefully getting rid of an unwanted ethnic group or groups, with the intention that the removal is permanent. It's mostly a case of semantics. If there is any difference, I'd say it's a sense of scale. You could describe an incident of ethnic cleansing as happening in a town or a country, but you would only use genocide in terms of what's happening in a country. What happens in a single town isn't a big enough event to be genocide.

As far as AoT goes, Zeke isn't personally going around killing each and every Eldian, but for all functional purposes it's the same as genocide. The Eldian population has no choice in the matter and won't be around anymore. I see. Thanks for clarifying. It's just that I hear actual cases of ethnic cleansing (with real-life event such as in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the current war, and while some say genocide, some say it's not technically speaking but its a war crime regardless.

Well yes Eldians just growing old and no offspring whatsoever, a terrible fate but seems like a rather quiet one.