Fratricide


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"Cain kills Abel", a fratricide illustrated by Gustave Doré (And Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and slew him[1]).
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Fratricide (from the Latin word frater, meaning: "brother" and cide meaning to kill) is the act of a person killing his or her brother. According to the Bible and the Qur'an, fratricide was the first type of murder committed in human history.

Related concepts are sororicide (the killing of one's sister), child murder (the killing of an unrelated child), infanticide (the killing of a child under the age of one year), filicide (the killing of one's child), patricide (the killing of one's father), matricide (the killing of one's mother), mariticide (the killing of one's husband) and uxoricide (the killing of one's wife). See also siblicide.

The term may also be used to refer to friendly fire incidents. It also refers to the possible destruction of one MIRV warhead by another.

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Ottoman Empire

In the Ottoman Empire a policy of judicial royal fratricide was introduced by Sultan Mehmet II whose grandfather Mehmed I had to fight a long and bloody civil war against his brothers (which brought the empire near to destruction) to take the throne.. When a new Sultan ascended to the throne he would imprison all of his surviving brothers and kill them by strangulation with a silk cord as soon as he had produced his first male heir. The largest killing took place on the succession of Mehmed III when 19 of his brothers were killed and buried with their father. The aim was to prevent civil war. The practice was abandoned in the 17th century by Ahmed I, replaced by imprisonment in the Kafes.

Fictional fratricides

  • In God of War, the protagonist Kratos is sent on a quest to kill Ares, the god of war; in God of War II, Kratos is told by a dying Athena that Zeus is his father, making Ares his half-brother.
  • In God of War III, Kratos is challenged by an angry Hercules for being supposedly Zeus' "favorite" (using the following examples: he was cleaning the Augean stables when Kratos was chosen to kill Ares, he was fetching the Apples of the Hesperides when Kratos was crowned God of War, and he killed the Nemean Lion, but Kratos' name was spread throughout Greece). He attempts to complete his "thirteenth labor": killing Kratos and becoming the god of war in his stead. Hercules is ultimately killed by Kratos using the Nemean Cestus stolen from Hercules to repeatedly smash his face.
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  1. ^ "Holy Bible 21-th Century King James Version -". BibleGateway.com. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=1&chapter=4&version=48. Retrieved 2009-04-07. 






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