Ban on National Names

Aggressors may use civil registration institutions and religious establishments to forcibly change, adapt, or prohibit the traditional given names and surnames of the local population. This technique serves the deep consolidation of assimilation processes. Imposing the metropole's anthroponymic standards at birth or upon the issuance of documents deprives a person of their primary national marker and accelerates the dissolution of the indigenous people in the colonizer's demographic mass.