Fratricide
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For other uses, see Fratricide (disambiguation).
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.
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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]