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(December 2007)| Proscription (Latin: proscriptio) is the public
identification and official condemnation of enemies of the
state. The term originates from the Roman Civil Wars of the
First Century BC (see below) and is used informally for similar
phenomena in other times and places, also when the perpetrators
call it by other terms. Proscription implies the elimination en
masse of political rivals or personal enemies, and frequently
occurs during violent revolutions, most especially with the
Reign of Terror in the French Revolution or Stalin's purges of
the 1930s. Proscription was involved in the political violence
in Argentina against Peronists after Perón fled into exile.
Proscription is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as a
"decree of condemnation to death or banishment" and is a heavily
politically charged word, frequently used to refer to state-
approved murder or persecution. Proscription of 82 BC  An early
instance of mass proscription