A chara, - The potential power of words leads me to suggest a more accurate, more transparent phrase than "ethnic cleansing".
There is nothing clean, nothing cleansing, about it.
At the very least, if we must keep this phrase, inverted commas should be used, or perhaps "so-called" placed before it as in `'so-called punishment beatings". - Is mise, Fionnuala Nic A' Bhaird, Garran Beatty,
Cill Droichid, Co Chill Dara.