Eliticide or elitocide refers to " the killing of the leadership , the educated , and the clergy of a group . " It is usually carried out during the beginning of a genocide in order to cripple a possible resistance movement against its perpetrators . Examples of eliticide include the Armenian genocide , the Cambodian genocide , the German-Soviet occupation of Poland , and instances of eliticide during the Yugoslav Wars . The term was first used in 1992 by British reporter Michael Nicholson to describe the Bijeljina massacre in Bosnia and Herzegovina . During the Bosnian War local Serbs would point out prominent Bosniaks to be killed afterwards by Serb soldiers
Cambodian genocide
Cambodian genocide
Eliticide