Persecution precedes mass killing by isolating victims and drawing death lists

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. — Gregory H. Stanton, Ten Stages of Genocide, 16

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies Persecution as the stage where identification and separation — including starvation as a weapon — occur before outright extermination.
• XREF: connects to: Persecution marks the threshold where deliberate partial destruction of a group begins — Gregory H. Stanton, Ten Stages of Genocide, 5; Persecution separates victims and begins massacres short of outright genocide — Gregory H. Stanton, Ten Stages of Genocide, 16; Excluding people from the human community precedes mass violence. — Emanuele Castano, On the Perils of Glorifying the…, 33 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Persecution separates victims and begins massacres short of outright genocide #expands (0.90) — Gregory H. Stanton, Ten Stages of Genocide, 16
• Genocide requires victims to be reduced to an abstract category before killing. #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 422
• Genocide targets a category, so victims must first be abstracted. #expands (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 646
• Excluding people from the human community precedes mass violence. #expands (0.82) — Emanuele Castano, On the Perils of Glorifying the In-group, 33