Democide

aardi.org ^ | R. J. Rummel

[The Great RJ]

I would add Green Democide where government green policies cause mass deaths due to temperature extremes without adequate heating or cooling or starvation from environmental policies that restrict agriculture.

[scrabblehack]

I must say I don’t care for the word.

demos is Greek for “the people.”
Ideally you would want a Latin root here instead.

Populicide would be fully Latin.
I want to say fully Greek would be “demothanasia.”

But he’s trying to convey something fuzzy here.

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This also includes nonlethal acts that in the end eliminate or greatly hinder the group. Looking back on history one can see the different variations of democides that have occurred, but it is still the act of killing or mass murder.

A great example would relate to Hitler and Mao Zedong. A generalized meaning of genocide is similar to the ordinary meaning but also includes government killings of political opponents or otherwise intentional murder.

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I’m not clear on whether the desired concept is the “nonlethal acts” or the “government killings of political opponents.”

I suppose populicide or demothanasia would be killing of all people and something more specific is desired.

[TChad]

Rummel's 1993 piece on deaths caused by communism:

https://hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM

[avenir]

I hear you!