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For millennia, human history has consisted of repeated episodes of one group of people displacing another through expulsion, subjugation, genocide or other means.

Also replaced were eight disgraced military commanders, whose expulsions from the party over severe disciplinary violations and “duty-related crimes” were announced last week.

A worse sin, even, than Amin’s expulsion in 1972 of every last Ugandan Asian, an act that was wildly popular with black Ugandans but which beggared Uganda almost overnight.

The group warned that potential expulsion from the building “should be a concern to all” and argued that the restrictions “appear to violate the First Amendment” in a statement shared by CNN.

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Arrests, suspensions and expulsions of pro-Palestinian students and groups have also grown, though the vast majority of Los Angeles students detained by police during last year’s protests did not face criminal charges.

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