Androcide

Rather, male civilians are often targeted during warfare as a way to remove those considered to be potential combatants, and during genocide as a way to destroy the entire community.

For example, during the Kosovo War, the Yugoslav forces under Slobodan Milošević was accused of massacring a lot of male Albanians of "battle age" because they saw them as a threat.

Afterward, average men and boys would be killed en masse, and the women and little children in their communities deported.

In many countries, only men are subjected to military conscription, which leaves them at greater risk of death during warfare compared to women.

Alternatively, they are afraid that these men will attempt to fight back and kill them for any number of reasons, including revenge, mutual fear, and self defense.

Even infants and the elderly were not spared; the Greeks wanted to prevent a future Trojan rebellion or uprising.