Earliest use of "ethnic cleansing"

[Paul McFedries]

I no longer need the post mentioned below. The Foreign Affairs article from
which it quotes (which is what I really wanted) is available via LexisNexis.

Paul

----- Original Message -----
> While searching for "ethnic cleansing" in the archives, I came across the
> following post:
>
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9905A&L=ads-l&P=R1252
>
> It begins thusly:
>
> "This posting is more about history than about language, but it is a
> response to a posting about the earliest use of the term 'ethnic
> cleansing.'"
>
> I've searched and searched but I can't find the "posting about the
earliest
> use of the term 'ethnic cleansing'." Can anyone help me find that post, or
> send me a copy if you have it? Even better, does anyone have any
information
> about the earliest use of "ethnic cleansing," particularly anything that
> antedates the OED's 1991 cite?