Excluded from the definition are:
- execution for what are internationally considered capital crimes, such as murder, rape, spying, treason, and the like, so long as evidence does not exist that such allegations were invented by the government in order to execute the accused;
- actions taken against armed civilians during mob action or riot (e.g., killing people with weapons in their hands is not democide); and
- the death of noncombatants killed during attacks on military targets, so long as the primary target is military (e.g., during bombing of enemy logistics).
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