Persecution marks the threshold where deliberate partial destruction of a group begins

Evidence

Victims are identified and separated out because of their ethnic or religious identity. Death lists are drawn up. In state sponsored genocide, members of victim groups may be forced to wear identifying symbols. Their property is often confiscated. Sometimes they are even segregated into ghettoes, deported into concentration camps, or confined to a famine-struck region and starved. Genocidal massacres begin. They are acts of genocide because they intentionally destroy part of a group. — Gregory H. Stanton, Ten Stages of Genocide, 5

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the persecution stage — identification, symbolic marking, confiscation, ghettoization/deportation — and where it crosses into genocidal massacre.
• XREF: connects to: Persecution separates victims and begins massacres short of outright genocide — Gregory H. Stanton, Ten Stages of Genocide, 16; Persecution precedes mass killing by isolating victims and drawing death lists — Gregory H. Stanton, Ten Stages of Genocide, 16

Broader Connections

• Persecution precedes mass killing by isolating victims and drawing death lists #expands (0.92) — Gregory H. Stanton, Ten Stages of Genocide, 16
• Persecution separates victims and begins massacres short of outright genocide #expands (0.90) — Gregory H. Stanton, Ten Stages of Genocide, 16