Necroviolence

practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings

destruction of evidence of mass murder at Operation Reinhardt killing centres

form of post-mortem mutilation

Necropolitics is a sociopolitical theory of the use of social and political power to dictate how some people may live and how some must die. The deployment of necropolitics creates what Achille Mbembe calls deathworlds, or "new and unique forms of social existence in which vast populations are subjected to living conditions that confer upon them the status of the living dead." Mbembe, author of On the Postcolony, was the first scholar to explore the term in depth in his 2003 article, and later, his 2019 book of the same name. Mbembe identifies racism as a prime driver of necropolitics, stating

deliberately damaging a grave with intent to dishonor the dead person

Atrocity propaganda story in World War I

mutilation during war

massacre in Australia

Alleged Israeli war crimes and human rights violations involving damage to cemeteries and abuse of corpses (necroviolence)

2012 shock video

2019 murder