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Androcide as a common practice continued in ancient times. Mythological accounts of the Greek takeover of Miletus in circa 9th century BCE have the legendary son of Poseidon leading a massacre of the men of Miletus and settling the city in the Milesian men's stead.
Biblical androcides include the Massacre of the Innocents recounted in the Book of Matthew although many modern scholars consider that this may be apocryphal , and the avenging of Dinah.
Pakistan targeted male intellectuals for extermination in the erstwhile province of East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh) during the 1971 Bangladesh atrocities. Pol Pot executed many men in Cambodia, resulting in a large percentage of Cambodia's population afterwards being women. During the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots men were targeted overwhelmingly on account of them being breadwinners of the family. in Iraq and the Srebrenica massacre of Bosniak men and boys on July 12, 1995.
Femicide is defined as the systematic killing of women for various reasons, usually cultural. The word is attested from the 1820s.
The most widespread form of femicide is in the form of sex-selective infanticide in cultures with strong preferences for male offspring.
There have been reports of femicide in Guatemala City, Guatemala, and in India and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. The murders in Juarez, also known as las muertas de Juárez ("The dead women of Juárez"), and Guatemala were reportedly not investigated by the local authorities.
• A comprehensive analysis of gendercide in China was delivered by author Talia Carner at the 2007 U.N. Commission on the Status of Women
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