Editing Genocide (section)

== Methods ==
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[[File:Russian soldiers Sheykhalan 1915.jpg|thumb|Remains of victims of the [[Armenian genocide]] in the former Armenian village of Sheykhalan near [[Muş|Mush]], 1915]]
[[File:Ambassador Morgenthau's Story p314.jpg|thumb|alt=Photograph of the bodies of dozens of Armenians in a field|[[Armenian genocide]] victims. The corpses of Armenians beside a road, a common sight along deportation routes.]]
It is a common misconception that genocide necessarily involves mass killing; indeed, it may occur without a single person being killed.{{sfn|Jones|2023|loc= The Origins of Genocide}}

Forced displacement is a common feature of many genocides, with the victims often transported to another location where their destruction is easier for the perpetrators. In some cases, victims are transported to sites where they are killed or deprived of the necessities of life.{{sfn|Basso|2024|p=20}} People are often killed by the displacement itself, as was the case for many [[Armenian genocide]] victims.{{sfn|Basso|2024|p=21}} Cultural destruction, such as that practised at [[Canadian Indian residential schools|Canadian boarding schools for indigenous children]], is often dependent on controlling the victims at a specific location.{{sfn|Basso|2024|p=21}} Destruction of cultural objects, such as religious buildings, is common even when the primary method of genocide is not cultural.{{sfn|Jones|2023|pp=42–43}} Cultural genocide, such as [[American Indian boarding schools|residential schools]], is particularly common during settler-colonial consolidation.{{sfn|Häussler|Stucki|Veracini|2022|pp=213–214}}{{sfn|Adhikari|2023|p=43}}

Men, particularly young adults, are disproportionately targeted for killing before other victims in order to stem resistance.{{sfn|Basso|2024|p=33}}{{sfn|von Joeden-Forgey|2022|p=118}} Although diverse forms of sexual violence—ranging from rape, forced pregnancy, forced marriage, sexual slavery, mutilation, forced sterilization—can affect either males or females, women are more likely to face it.{{sfn|von Joeden-Forgey|2022|pp=116–119}} The combination of killing of men and sexual violence against women is often intended to disrupt reproduction of the targeted group.{{sfn|Basso|2024|p=33}}

Almost all genocides are brought to an end either by the military defeat of the perpetrators or the accomplishment of their aims.{{sfn|Bellamy|McLoughlin|2022|p=303}}