Moral Genocide
Moral genocide occur when the occupier introduce policies ‘to weaken the spiritual resistance of the national group’. This technique of moral debasement entails diverting the ‘mental energy of the group’ from ‘moral and national thinking’ to ‘base instincts’. The aim is that ‘the desire for cheap individual pleasure be substituted for the desire for collective feelings and ideals based upon a higher morality.’ Lemkin mentioned the encouragement of pornography and alcoholism in Poland as an example. Prostitution and sexualization of Papuan women in West Papua case.
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