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The language lacks a nuance in between "intentional mass slaughter" and "systematic eradication and displacement of ethnic group."
Both are classed as genocide by international conventions, even if in our heads they seem very different.
I think that's why often genocide is used for the former and ethnic cleansing for the latter, which makes some form of sense since, as you said, there appears to be a difference.
I'm not trying to lessen the evil of what either is because I don't believe in 'which is more evil' contests, just that, for categorization purposes, maybe that is needed.