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Reminds me on this as well: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/150901-is...

Also I am not sure from newer history was it Khmer Rouge who order genocide of their own population over 40 years old, ideology was that they wanted to erase collective knowledge of elders.

"Pol Pot then began using intimidation efforts against the Chams that included the assassination of village elders but he ultimately ordered the full-scale mass killing of the Cham people."



It is a reminder that a civilization not only needs to flourish from within, but be able to protect itself from without.




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