10 Stages of Genocide

Classification: People are divided into "us and them".

Symbolization: People are forced to identify themselves.

Discrimination: People begin to face systematic discrimination.

Dehumanization: People equated with animals, vermin, or diseases.

Organization: The government creates special groups

(police/military) to enforce the policies.

Polarization: The government broadcasts propaganda to turn the

populace against the group.

Preparation: Official action to remove/relocate people begins.

Persecution: Beginning of murders, theft of property, trial massacres.

Extermination: Wholesale elimination of the group. It is

"extermination" and not murder because the people are not

considered human.

 Denial: The government denies that it has committed any crime.