It’s a -cide word, but I don’t remember it. Natiocide? Something like that. The definition, IIRC, was “the systematic murder of a nation’s own people.” It isn’t genocide.
democide
noun. The systematic killing of the members of a country’s general population (c.f. genocide: the killing of members of minority or political groups)
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On the other hand, Rudolph Rummel, who coined and popularized the term, defined it as any government killing of members of its own population - i.e. including both general popualtion and genocide. See Definition of Democide.