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In the process of killing, men and women may be (perceived or real) patriarchal social structure, and women and children are treated differently; for example, men may be murdered first and women may be murdered, raped, sometimes kidnapped and enslaved as resources for the raped before murder. [...] People are often and destroyed, including religious, cultural and educational institutions, religious, blockaded and given no means of escape from the affected region or the cultural and intellectual leaders, sacred texts, national museums and libraries, and containment area (“concentration camp”), offers of food aid from the outside so forth. [...] removal, the ‘reeducation’ of children so they forget their native languages and traditions, killing children or pregnant women to demoralize the group, the denial of identity and citizenship, the erasure of history, the banning of languages, the renaming of the physical world, and the desecration of graves. [...] The appropriation of people is usually committed alongside the appropriation of natural and other resources, such as foodstuffs, medicines, and especially land, precious metals, diamonds, minerals, and oil, and results in widespread atrocity and terror. [...] This denial and An older pattern in which women and girls, who are believed to be useless, are obstruction can take the form of revocation of citizenship, denaturalization, killed first and men and young boys are used as slave laborers (often in withholding of official recognition, and creating conditions preventing communal specialized industries) until they die.