Policide
Intentional destruction of an independent political and social entity / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about a political science term. For an engineering term, see Policide (engineering).
Not to be confused with Police brutality.
In political science, policide describes the intentional destruction of an independent political or social entity. Sometimes, the related word "politicide" is used in this meaning.[1] The term is used with some regularity within political science, generally to refer to a policy of destruction that falls short of genocide or ethnocide.