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The definition of an "apology" is not specified. It may be the desire to justify a crime, which is not to be confused with praise or provocation (incitement) to commit this crime: "it is enough that such remarks, once projected into the future , encourage people to pass a favorable judgment on crimes of this nature."
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signing the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht. The term debellatio or "debellation" (Latin 'defeating, or the act of conquering or subduing', literally, 'warring (the enemy) down', from Latin bellum 'war') designates the end of war caused by complete destruction of a hostile state.
Destructionism, as discussed by Austrian economist Ludwig Von Mises, refers to policies that consume capital but do not accumulate it. It is the title of Part V of his seminal work Socialism.
The strict scorched-earth policy made him ask on 29 July 1812 the people of Jujuy to "show their heroism" and to join the march of the army under his command "if, as you assure, you want to be free". The punishment for ignoring the order was execution, with the destruction of the defector's properties.
Examples of the destruction of pagan temples in the late fourth century, as recorded in surviving texts, describe Martin of Tours' attacks on holy sites in Gaul, [5] the destruction of temples in Syria by Marcellus, [6] the destruction of temples and images in, and surrounding, Carthage, [7] the Patriarch Theophilus who seized and destroyed pagan temples in Alexandria, [8] the levelling of all ...
The destruction of culture was a central component in Lemkin's formulation of genocide. [1] Though the precise definition of cultural genocide remains contested, the United Nations does not include it in the definition of genocide used in the 1948 Genocide Convention . [ 2 ]
Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1]. A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2]
Ethnocide is the extermination or destruction of ethnic identities. [1] [2] [3] Bartolomé Clavero differentiates ethnocide from genocide by stating that "Genocide kills people while ethnocide kills social cultures through the killing of individual souls". [4] According to Martin Shaw, ethnocide is a core part of physically violent genocide. [1]