Internal genocide - actions aimed at the deliberate destruction of citizens of any country, committed by their own government or other compatriots [1] .
In the English-language literature, the term autogenocide is used, which is derived from the word genocide by adding the Greek car reflex pronoun ( Greek αὐτο ), which literally means genocide against themselves . This term was introduced in the second half of the 1970s. to characterize the genocide in Cambodia , carried out by the communist regime of the Khmer Rouge in 1975-1979. It is the focus on the citizens of their own country (or on their people) that distinguishes autogenocide (for example, Armenians or Assyrians ) from the “external” genocide, aimed at the inhabitants of the occupied territories (for example, Jews and Slavs in the territories seized by Germany during the Second World War ) [2 ] .
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- ↑ MSN Encarta - Dictionary - autogenocide definition . Archived 2009-10-31.
- ↑ Bjornson, Karin. Genocide and Gross Human Rights Violations , Transaction Publishers, June 30, 1998