What the records say
- When
- 2 Aug 1998
- Kind
- Genocide
- Deaths
- 1,500,000
- Coordinates
- 4.33° S, 15.30° E
- Description
- genocide for economic gains in the DRC
Placed at the coordinates of its French Wikipedia article.
Genocost
Congoese genocide for economic gains
Genocost is a genocide perpetrated for economic gain. Proposals to legally recognise genocost as an economic crime defines it as "a regime of destruction of a population through the systemic economic exploitation of its vital resources, the disintegration of its socioeconomic structures, and durable harms to its environment, when such effects are willed, known, or accepted as a necessary cost of profit or geoeconomic…
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