Assassination Through History

Assassination refers to the deliberate, premeditated murder of a prominent figure for political reasons.

Some causes of assassinations include restrictions on political competition, strong polarization and fragmentation, lack of consensual political ethos, politically deprived groups, and domestic violence during election periods.

The implications of an assassination of a political leader can vary, but it often leads to political instability, potential power struggles, and changes in policies and leadership.

<p>Genocidal mass death can be categorized into ideological genocide/politicides and pragmatic genocide.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The three types of pragmatic genocide mentioned are developmental genocide, retributive genocide, and hegemonic genocide.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>According to the text, factors that contribute to genocide include ethnicity, nationality, religion, economic dependency, underdevelopment, destitution, limited physical resources, usurpation of political power, marginalization, quelling of insurgencies or threat of coup d’etat, and historical factors such as colonialism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The strategies used by offenders of genocide to conceal their actions include denying that genocide has taken place, belittling the scope of the crime, presenting genocide as justified, banalizing genocide by stigmatizing it as a dispute between ethnic or religious groups or as a usual part of war, and justifying former victims' attempts of revenge if both sides commit the act.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group: killing members of a group; causing serious bodily harm or mental harm to members of a group; deliberately inflicting on the group's conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part thereof; imposing measures intended to prevent births within group; forcibly transferring children of a group to another group.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ethnic cleansing is a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove, by violent and terror-inspiring means, the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas. It is carried out in the name of misguided nationalism, historic grievances, and a powerful driving force for revenge. Ethnic cleansing is related to genocide as it involves the deliberate removal and harm of a specific group based on their ethnicity or religion, which aligns with the criteria for genocide defined by the UN Convention.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Genocide is viewed as any act committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group. This includes killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction, imposing measures to prevent births, and forcibly transferring children. Ethnic cleansing, which involves the intentional removal and harm of a specific ethnic or religious group, aligns with the criteria for genocide and is therefore also viewed as a punishable act under international humanitarian law.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>According to Pramono's classification, the three degrees of genocide are: 1) First degree genocide, which includes the mental element, material element, and destruction of a human group. It is also known as absolute genocide or intentional genocide. Ethnic cleansing falls under this category. 2) Second degree genocide, which lacks the mental element and is typically committed under conditions of war. 3) Third degree genocide, which lacks both the mental and material elements and occurs as a by-product of reckless or negligent policies.</p> Signup and view all the answers