Utilitarian genocide is one of five forms of genocide categorized and defined in 1975 by genocide scholar Vahakn Dadrian . Utilitarian genocide is distinctly different from ideologically-motivated genocides like the Holocaust and the Cambodian genocide . This form of genocide has as its aim some form of material gain , such as the seizure of territory in order to gain control of economic resources for commercial exploitation . Two given examples of this form are the genocide of indigenous peoples in Brazil and the genocide of indigenous peoples in Paraguay
Cambodian genocide
Cambodian genocide
Utilitarian genocide