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eliticide

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English

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Etymology

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From elite +‎ -icide. First used in 1992 by British reporter Michael Nicholson to describe the Bijeljina massacre in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Noun

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eliticide (plural eliticides)

  1. The targeted killing of the leadership of a group (to cripple it), for example at the beginning of a genocide or during a revolution.

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