They were characterized Justifying by unprecedented ferocity , wholesale destruction Destroying , mass deportations , and immense loss Earnings_and_losses of life due to combat , starvation , exposure , disease , and massacres .

Republika Srpska leaders Biljana Plavšić and Momčilo Krajišnik were convicted Legal_rulings for the deportations and forcible transfers in the ethnic cleansing Emptying that followed Motion the massacre .

700,000 to 800,000 Hui in Shaanxi who were deported Removing to Gansu were massacred Killing along the way to Gansu by the militia carrying out Military_operation the deportations Removing until only a few thousand of them remained Temporary_stay alive .

Public executions and deportations to Siberia eventually persuaded Convincing many Poles to abandon GiveUp armed struggle Hostile_encounter .

Luc 's arrest Arrest and conviction led to Causation political controversy Quarreling over deportation from the United States , in particular the Supreme Court ruling Legality in `` Zadvydas v. Davis '' that existing Presence statutes did not authorize long-term post-prison detention of criminals Committing_crime whose deportations could not be carried out Military_operation .

Several contemporaneous observers and later historians have concluded Coming_to_believe that the Ottoman government deliberately instigated Process_start the armed Armenian resistance Defending by enforcing Action the conditions on their subjects and then used Using this insurgency Hostile_encounter as a main pretext to justify Justifying the forced deportations Removing of Armenians from all over the empire .