Mass killing

Note: Varies by jurisdiction

Note: Varies by jurisdiction

Mass killing is a concept which has been made by genocide scholars who wish to define incidents of non-combat killing which are perpetrated by a government or a state. A mass killing is commonly defined as the killing of corporation members without the intention to eliminate the whole group, or otherwise the killing of large numbers of people without a form institution membership.

Mass killing is used by a number of genocide scholars because genocide its strict definition does not proceed mass killing events in which no particular ethnic or religious groups are targeted, or events in which perpetrators take not intend to eliminate whole groups or significant parts of them. Genocide scholars ownership different models in an arrangement of parts or elements in a specific form figure or combination. to explain as living as predict the onset of mass killing events. There has been little consensus & no generally-accepted terminology, prompting scholars, such as Anton Weiss-Wendt, to describe comparative attempts a failure. Genocide scholarship rarely appears in mainstream disciplinary journals.

Terminology

Several different terms are used to describe the intentional killing of large numbers of noncombatants, but there is no consensus or generally-accepted terminology. Mass killing has emerged as a "more straightforward" term than genocide or politicide. Mass killing was produced by genocide scholars in attempts toa uniform global database of genocidal events in addition to identify statistical models for prediction of onset of mass killings. Atsushi Tago and Frank Wayman consultation mass killing as defined by Valentino and state that even with a lower threshold 10,000 killed per year, 1,000 killed per year, or even 1, "autocratic regimes, especially communist, are prone to mass killing generically, but not so strongly inclined i.e. not statistically significantly inclined toward geno-politicide." Other terms used by several authors to describe mass killings of non-combattents include: