domicide
Sign in to saveDomicide (from Latin domus, meaning home or abode, and caedo, meaning deliberate killing, though used here metaphorically) is the deliberate destruction of housing by humans in pursuit of specified goals. It includes the widespread destruction of a living environment, forcing the incumbent humans to move elsewhere.
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It sits within the topics Attacks on residential buildings, Destruction of buildings and Genocide studies.
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Domicide (from Latin domus, meaning home or abode, and caedo, meaning deliberate killing, though used here metaphorically) is the deliberate destruction of housing by humans in pursuit of specified goals. It includes the widespread destruction of a living environment, forcing the incumbent humans to move elsewhere.
The concept of domicide originated in the 1970s, but only assumed its present meaning in 2022, after a report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal. Rajagopal has argued that international law should be amended to consider domicide to be a war crime.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “domicide” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.