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Purges
.
Articles relating to political and cultural
purges
, position removal or
execution
of people who are considered undesirable by those in power from a government, another organization, their team leaders, or society as a whole. A group undertaking such an effort is labeled as
purging
itself. Purges can be either nonviolent or violent, with the former often resolved by the simple removal of those who have been purged from office, and the latter often resolved by the
imprisonment
,
exile
, or
murder
of those who have been purged.