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Politicide is the deliberate physical destruction or elimination of a group whose members share the main characteristic of belonging to a political movement. It is a type of political repression and one of the means used to politically cleanse populations, another being forced migration.
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In political science, policide describes the intentional...
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I. Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66. Indonesian...
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Democide is the murder of any person or people by their government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder. Democide is not necessarily the elimination of entire cultural groups but rather groups within the country that the government feels need to be eradicated for political reasons and due to claimed future threats.
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Politicide, mass murder, genocide: Deaths: 500,000: 3 –1,000,000+: 3 Perpetrators: Indonesian Army and various death squads, supported by the United States, the United Kingdom and other Western governments
- 1965–1966
- Indonesia
- 500,000: 3 –1,000,000+: 3
Classicide is a concept proposed by sociologist Michael Mann to describe the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of a social class through persecution and violence.
Nov 3, 2007 · Auteur: Sangar Eric. Representing a special analytical category of political mass violence, the term “classicide” was only recently coined by Michael Mann (2005). He describes with it the intentional elimination of one or several social classes, presented as opposed to the order established by the governing class.
