Gendercide
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Gendercide is a neologism that refers to the systematic killing of members of a specific sex, either males or females.[1] The term is intended to be sex-neutral, but it is mostly used in feminism to refer to female victims (feminicide or femicide), though it has also been used to refer to male victims.
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[edit] Male victims
The systematic killing of men, viricide, happens sometimes during war to reduce an enemy's potential pool of soldiers; this happened for example in the 1988 Anfal campaign against Kurdish men and boys[2][3][4] in Iraq and on 12 July 1995 during the Srebrenica massacre of Bosniak men and boys.[5][6] During the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots men were targeted overwhelmingly.[7] According to many sources, a similar event is currently going on in the Darfur genocide, where men and boys are generally targeted for death over women and girls.
[edit] Draft dodgers
Men who refused conscription in the military have been the target of forced labor, mutilation, and massacre in the nations of Angola, Ethiopia, Iraq, and Russia[8].
[edit] Femicide
Femicide is the systematic killing of women for various reasons, usually cultural. Femicide is seen as a gender crime. It is attested from the 1820s.[9]
There have been reports of femicide in Guatemala City, Guatemala, and in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico[10]. The murders in Juarez, also known as las muertas de Juárez ("The dead women of Juárez"), and Guatemala were reportedly not investigated by the local authorities. Most of the women were raped before being murdered and some were mutilated, tortured and dismembered. In Guatemala City about 20% of the over 500 women murdered in 2004 and 2005 were killed in pairs, due to an "intimate relationship", according to Claudia Acevedo of Lesbiradas.[citation needed]
The most widespread form of femicide is in the form of sex-selective infanticide in cultures with strong preferences for male offspring, notably in the mainland of the People's Republic of China, India, and South Korea. These practices result in demographic imbalance with an excess of males.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Coined by Mary Anne Warren in her 1985 book Gendercide: The Implications of Sex Selection[1]
- ^ The Crimes of Saddam Hussein
- ^ Koreme Before The Anfal Campaign
- ^ Gendercide Watch: The Anfal Campaign (Iraqi Kurdistan), 1988
- ^ Srebrenica Timeline
- ^ Serbians Still Divided Over Srebrenica Massacre
- ^ Gendercide Watch - case studies: Kashmir/Punjab/The Delhi Massacre
- ^ Case Study: Military conscription/ Impressment
- ^ 2006 Random House Unabridged Dictionary
- ^ Femicide and Gender Violence in Mexico, retrieved on May 28th 2007.
[edit] External links
- Gendercide Watch Website devoted to this subject, with links to publications and related resources
- Gendercide watch - Female Infanticide
- Femicide in Guatemala--Guernica Magazine (guernicamag.com)
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Situation of the Rights of Women in Ciudad Juárez (2002) —
Report by OAS human rights agency. - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Graduate Research "Juarez Mothers Fight Femicide Documentary" (March 2005)
- The Economist - No place for your daughters (Nov 24th 2005)
- Lourdes Portillo Video, Señorita Extraviada ISDN 0807861731 2001
