policide

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The intentional destruction of a nation.
  2. The intentional destruction of political activity in a society.
    — In Chile the project of policide—annihilating the Left and more broadly, Center and Left cultural understandings of politics as a process of popular mobilization, via massive killing and abduction of real and alleged Left activists, complemented by additional layers of persecution and fright heaped on dissidents of any political stripe—yielded issues of comprehensibility and representation similar to those in classic cases of genocide.

词源

Coined based on Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “city; state”) and the suffix -cide.
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