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fratricide wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 religion and mythology toggle religion and mythology subsection 1 1 osiris myth 1 2 the mahabharata and the ramayana 2 roman empire 3 persian empire 4 tang empire 5 ottoman empire 6 mughal empire 7 antigone 8 ashoka s empire 9 zulu kingdom 10 20th century 11 21st century 12 see also 13 references toggle the table of contents fratricide 20 languages العربية català deutsch español euskara فارسی हिन्दी հայերեն bahasa indonesia 日本語 한국어 македонски português română русский srpskohrvatski српскохрватски simple english українська اردو 中文 edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia act of killing one s own brother for other uses see fratricide disambiguation this article needs more citations please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources unsourced material may be challenged and removed find sources fratricide news newspapers books scholar jstor june 2008 learn how and when to remove this message 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 part of a series on homicide murder note varies by jurisdiction assassination attempted murder child murder consensual homicide contract killing crime of passion depraved heart murder felony murder rule foeticide honor killing human cannibalism child cannibalism human sacrifice child sacrifice internet homicide in custody lonely hearts killer lust murder lynching mass murder mass shooting mass stabbing misdemeanor murder murder for body parts murder suicide poisoning proxy murder pseudocommando serial killer angel of mercy spree killer thrill killing torture murder vehicle ramming attack wrongful execution judicial murder manslaughter in english law in us law in australian law voluntary manslaughter negligent homicide reckless homicide vehicular homicide non criminal homicide note varies by jurisdiction war assisted suicide capital punishment euthanasia foeticide justifiable homicide family familicide spousal murder mariticide uxoricide prolicide filicide infanticide neonaticide siblicide fratricide sororicide parricide matricide patricide senicide other crucifixion decapitation deicide democide friendly fire gendercide androcide femicide transfemicide genocide omnicide regicide stoning suspicious death tyrannicide war crime v t e part of a series on violence against men issues domestic violence outline against men management forced genital mutilation involuntary castration forced circumcision male expendability malicious castration involuntary penis removal shame stroke groom kidnapping killing androcide patricide mariticide fratricide avunculicide homicide statistics by gender sexual assault and rape rape prison rape statutory male rape sexual violence estimates related topics discrimination against men reverse sexism prosecution of gender targeted crimes men s rights movement gynocentrism masculist views on violence sentencing disparity violence against women v t e fratricide from latin fratricidium from frater brother and cīdium killing the assimilated root of caedere to kill cut down is the act of killing one s own brother it can either be done directly or via the use of either a hired or an indoctrinated intermediary an assassin the victim need not be the perpetrator s biological brother in a military context fratricide refers to a service member killing a comrade the term is often used metaphorically to refer to civil wars 2 3 religion and mythology edit the abrahamic religions recognize the biblical account of cain and abel as the first fratricidal murder esau swore to kill jacob after jacob stole his blessings and later jacob s sons planned to kill joseph but instead sold him judge gideon s son avimelech killed his seventy brothers except for the youngest jotham who escaped in the mythology of ancient rome the city is founded as the result of a fratricide with the twins romulus and remus quarreling over who has the favour of the gods and over each other s plans to build rome with romulus becoming rome s first king and namesake after killing his brother 4 in greek mythology cassiphone the daughter of odysseus and circe killed her half brother and husband telemachus in revenge after he killed her mother circe following a quarrel between the two 5 osiris myth edit main article osiris myth in ancient egyptian mythology the god osiris is murdered by his brother set who usurps the throne the mahabharata and the ramayana edit in the hindu epic mahābhārata karna was killed by arjuna who was unaware that karna was his eldest brother roman empire edit the only known fratricides in the roman empire are romulus killing remus and the reasonably well known murder of geta on the orders of his brother caracalla in 211 the brothers had a fraught relationship enduring many years upon their father septimius severus s death in february 211 they succeeded him as co emperors their joint rule was embittered and unsuccessful with each of them conspiring to have the other one murdered in december of that year caracalla pretended to be holding a reconciliation in their mother julia domna s apartment when geta was lured to come unarmed and unguarded a group of centurions loyal to caracalla ambushed him upon geta s arrival with geta dying in his mother s arms 6 it is said that the fratricide would often come back to haunt caracalla persian empire edit there are many recorded fratricides in persia the most famous of which involving cyrus the great s sons cambyses ii and bardiya the former killing the latter there are also stories about the sons of artaxerxes i xerxes ii sogdianus and darius ii all of which concern competition for the throne in addition there were many fratricides recorded during the parthian and sassanid empires tang empire edit main article xuanwu gate incident prince li shimin prince of qin the second son of emperor gaozu was in an intense rivalry with his elder brother crown prince li jiancheng and younger brother prince li yuanji prince of qi he took control and set up an ambush at xuanwu gate the northern gate leading to the palace city of the imperial capital chang an there li jiancheng and li yuanji were murdered by li shimin and his men within three days after the coup li shimin was installed as the crown prince emperor gaozu abdicated another sixty days later and passed the throne to li shimin who would become known as emperor taizong ottoman empire edit fratricide was not originally legal in the ottoman empire the practice of fratricide was legalized by mehmed ii his grandfather mehmed i struggled over the throne with his brothers süleyman i̇sa and musa during the ottoman interregnum this civil war lasted eight years and weakened the empire due to the casualties it inflicted and the division it sowed in ottoman society as a result mehmed ii formally legalized the practice of fratricide in order to preserve the state and not further place strain on the unity as previous civil wars did mehmed ii stated of any of my sons that ascends the throne it is acceptable for him to kill his brothers for the common benefit of the people nizam i alem the majority of the ulama muslim scholars have approved this let action be taken accordingly 7 when mehmed s son bayezid ii died his son selim i immediately assumed the throne and proceeded to execute his two brothers ahmed and korkut the largest practice of fratricide was committed by mehmed iii when he had 19 of his brothers murdered and buried alongside their father his successor ahmed i when faced with public disapproval for the practice of fratricide decided to outlaw the practice and replace it with seniority ascension system along with imprisonment in the kafes of any prince who would be a possible threat to the throne citation needed mughal empire edit in the mughal empire fratricides often occurred as a result of wars of succession shah jahan had his eldest brother khusrau mirza killed in 1622 8 shah jahan also had his brother shahriyar killed in 1628 shah jahan s son dara shikoh was assassinated by four of his brother aurangzeb s henchmen in front of his terrified son on the night of 30 august 1659 9 september gregorian antigone edit the events in the greek tragedy antigone unfold due to the previous war between the princely brothers eteocles and polyneices who killed each other in combat polyneices had challenged his brother s claim to the throne of the city thebes and attacked the city with an army from argos eteocles fought for thebes to defend the city against polyneices and his army the two killed each other by stabbing in the heart ashoka s empire edit ashoka also known as chand ashoka cruel ashoka killed his brothers as punishment for the king s his father death and quarrel for the kingdom war of succession later on ashoka conquered greater india entire before he adopted buddhism and forsook war zulu kingdom edit shaka the zulu king was killed by his half brother dingane and his brother mhlangana in 1828 dingane became the zulu leader until he was assassinated in 1840 in the hlatikhulu forest 20th century edit on 1 august 1943 in canillo andorra pere areny shot and killed his half brother antoni while the victim slept 9 areny was arrested and quickly tried on a count of fratricide 9 he was publicly executed by firing squad on 18 october 1943 becoming the last person to be executed by andorra 10 between 1965 and 1966 12 year old piedad martínez del águila killed four of her younger siblings including two brothers in the del águila family killings 11 21st century edit in 2008 erin caffey planned the murder of her younger brothers and mother in the caffey family murders 12 in 2010 derrick bird killed his twin brother and then eleven other people using a shotgun and a 22 caliber rifle in cumbria england 13 in 2015 robert and michael bever murdered their two younger brothers in the broken arrow murders 14 on march 25 2022 rapper archie eversole known for his 2002 song we ready was shot in the head by his brother eversole died of his injuries on april 3 2022 15 in early september of 2022 myles sanderson killed his brother damien and ten other people as well as wounding seventeen others in a mass stabbing 16 see also edit look up fratricide in wiktionary the free dictionary a fratricide by franz kafka list of fratricides in fiction cain and abel romulus and remus friendly fire fratricide in the martial sense list of types of killing killing of family references edit genesis 4 48 21st century king james version retrieved 7 april 2009 via biblegateway murrell taylor amy 2009 the divided family in civil war america university of carolina press p 71 mcnelis charles 2007 statius thebaid and the poetics of civil war cambridge university press p 4 the political significance of the founding fratricide is discussed at length by t p wiseman remus a roman myth cambridge university press 1995 passim visser edzard 2006 cassiphone in cancik hubert schneider helmuth eds brill s new pauly translated by christine f salazar basle brill reference online doi 10 1163 1574 9347_bnp_e610200 retrieved 19 november 2023 wikipedia caracalla ekinci ekrem 7 august 2015 the history of fratricide in the ottoman empire part 1 daily sabah retrieved 2 november 2020 mahajan v d 2007 history of medieval india new delhi pp 126 7 isbn 978 81 219 0364 6 cite book cs1 maint location missing publisher link 1 2 molas sílvia marimon 4 september 2021 por qué mataste a tu hermano pere ara en castellano in spanish retrieved 6 september 2026 d andorra el periòdic 7 november 2013 l última sentència a mort a judici el periòdic d andorra in catalan retrieved 6 september 2026 rada juan 4 december 2016 piedad la niña de 12 años que envenenó a sus cuatro hermanos harta de cuidarlos piedad the 12 year old girl who poisoned her four siblings tired of taking care of them el español in spanish archived from the original on 30 september 2024 retrieved 7 august 2025 worley will 4 may 2016 woman who planned the murder of most of her family reveals why she did it the independent archived from the original on 11 december 2024 retrieved 23 december 2024 cumbria derrick bird s twin brother among 12 people killed in shooting spree uk news sky news 5 june 2010 archived from the original on 5 june 2010 retrieved 5 april 2025 cite web cs1 maint bot original url status unknown link smith alexander 23 july 2015 five found dead in broken arrow oklahoma two teen relatives detained nbc news we ready rapper archie eversole shot killed by his brother dekalb police say 15 april 2022 ready to die inquest into saskatchewan stabbings sees texts from killer s brother westcentralonline retrieved 27 april 2025 retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title fratricide oldid 1373525980 categories killings by type homicide death of men fratricides violence against men sibling rivalry hidden categories articles with short description short description is different from wikidata use dmy dates from december 2024 articles needing additional references from june 2008 all articles needing additional references all articles with unsourced statements articles with unsourced 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