Autogenocide

Autogenocide or peoples suicide (of English autogenocide , from the Greek αὐτό- car "self" and genocide ) refers to the extinction of a population of a country by its own government and its own population itself.

The term has its origins in the 1950s, when it was mainly used by Arnold J. Toynbee . The French political scientist and journalist Jean Lacouture used the term autogenocide to differentiate the mass murders of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia from other genocides during the years 1975–79 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Autogenocide. In: Oxford English Dictionary
2. ^ David P. Chandler : Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot (Revised Edition). Westview, 1999 Boulder (CO). Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai (Thailand) 2000, ISBN 974-7551-18-7 , pp. 3, 4