Victims of the State: Genocides, Politicides and Group Repression since 1945

1 September 1989

journal article
Published by SAGE Publications in International Review of Victimology

Vol. 1 (1) , 23-41
https://doi.org/10.1177/026975808900100103

Abstract

The collective victimization of ethnic, religious, national and political groups by the state is discussed in this paper. It analyzes information on more than 60 communal and political groups which have been victimized in genocides and politicides since 1945 and about 90 communal and regional groups which in the late 1980s were the subjects of systematic political repression or discrimination. The prospects that the latter groups will be the victims of future geno/politicides are assessed. The uses of these datasets for future research on the causes of geno/politicide are considered in the conclusion.

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