Memoricide

Memoricide is the destruction of the memory, extermination of the past of targeted people.[1] It also refers to destruction of the traces (religious buildings, schools...) that might recall former presence of those considered undesirable.[2]

Memoricide is used in support of ethnic cleansing.[3] Since the memoricide refers to intentional attempts to erase human memory about something, it is usually performed as destruction of its physical property.[4] The term was coined by Croatian doctor Mirko Grmek in the text published in Le Figaro on 19 December 1941.[5]

Allegations for memoricide

According to some accounts the memoricide was employed by Greece toward Macedonians of Slavic origin.[6]

The dissident[7] historian Ilan Pappe deployed the concept of cultural memoricide as systematic attempt of post-1948 Israel in relation to Palestine.[8]

Grmek used the term to describe activities of the rebel Serb forces in Croatia during the first year of the Croatian independence war.[9]

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References
  1. (Anić & Goldstein 2007, p. 846): " memoricid m (gen. jd memoricida) pol. uništavanje sjećanja, zatiranje prošlosti nekog naroda"
  2. (Jones 2010, p. 1)
  3. (Pavlaković, Pauković & Raos 2012, p. 235): "Surely, committing memoricide is a way to contribute to ethnic cleansing."
  4. (Porteous & Smith 2001, p. 9)
  5. (Sémelin & Hoffman 2007, p. 404)
  6. (MRGI 1994, p. 94)
  7. (Rivera-Pagán 2015, p. 113)
  8. (Masalha 2014, p. 148): "In The Ethnic Cleaning of Palestine the concept of cultural memoricide is deployed by historian Ilan Pappe, where he highlights the systematic scholarly, political and military attempt in post-1948 Israel to de-Arabize and “ecologicide” the Palestinian terrain, ...."
  9. (Sémelin & Hoffman 2007, p. 404)

Sources
  • Pavlaković, Vjeran; Pauković, Davor; Raos, Višeslav (1 September 2012). Confronting the Past: European Experiences. CPI/PSRC. ISBN 978-953-7022-26-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Anić, Vladimir; Goldstein, Ivo (2007). Rječnik stranih riječi. Novi Liber. ISBN 978-953-6045-49-5.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Porteous, Douglas; Smith, Sandra E. (17 October 2001). Domicide: The Global Destruction Of Home. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. ISBN 978-0-7735-2257-2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Jones, Adam (13 September 2010). Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-93796-5.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Masalha, Nur (20 October 2014). The Zionist Bible: Biblical Precedent, Colonialism and the Erasure of Memory. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-54465-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Rivera-Pagán, Luis N. (30 April 2015). Essays from the Margins. The Lutterworth Press. ISBN 978-0-7188-9400-9.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Sémelin, Jacques; Hoffman, Stanley (2007). Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-14282-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • MRGI (1994). Minority Rights Group International Report. The Group.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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