Persecution separates victims and begins massacres short of outright genocide

Evidence

PERSECUTION: 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

• XREF: connects to: Killing community leaders preceded mass extermination across Ottoman lands — Gregory H. Stanton, Ten Stages of Genocide, 19; Genocide targets a category, so victims must first be abstracted. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 646; Genocide scholars distinguish formal genocide from genocidal massacres (+3 more)

Related

• Persecution precedes mass killing by isolating victims and drawing death lists (similarity 0.92)
• Persecution marks the threshold where deliberate partial destruction of a group begins (similarity 0.90)
• Genocide targets a category, so victims must first be abstracted. (similarity 0.82)
• Genocide requires victims to be dehumanized into an abstract category first (similarity 0.80)
• Genocide requires victims to be reduced to an abstract category before killing. (similarity 0.80)
• Ordinary genocide aims at community destruction, not total annihilation. (similarity 0.79)
• Genocide extends ethnic cleansing by exterminating rather than just removing a group (similarity 0.79)
• Killing community leaders preceded mass extermination across Ottoman lands (similarity 0.78)
• Genocide differs from ethnic cleansing in requiring intent to destroy the group (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Genocide targets a category, so victims must first be abstracted. #expands (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 646
• Genocide follows a staged progression from derogation through brutality to systematic killing #expands (0.85)
• Genocide requires victims to be dehumanized into an abstract category first #expands (0.85)
• Genocide scholars distinguish formal genocide from genocidal massacres #qualifies (0.80)
• Genocide differs from ethnic cleansing in requiring intent to destroy the group #qualifies (0.80) — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 82