Genocide is one of the most important issues in international conflict and gruesomely so. As the text mentions, difference of ethnicity is the main reason of genocide. However there have been other widespread genocides. One such genocide would be the opposite of gentrification which happened in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge regime led by Pol Pot. Here there was a systematic killing of intellectuals on an astounding scale in an attempt to avenger and put on forefront the proletariat. It was a gruesome manifestation of communism. Similarly, in China in the cultural revolution a similar thing happened when the land lords and the former gentry was humiliated and sometimes even killed in an attempt to avenge the atrocities in the past and show the signifiers of capitalism that the proletariat has risen. I would consider that a sort of genocide as well because it is a systematic targeting of a Certain class of people. It is important to include the systematic targeting of people and not just killing in a huge reason for international conflict, especially in this day and age when the systematic targeting of Muslims and immigrants in different countries is causing a lot of hurt and anger.
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