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In 1002 in the king of England(Æthelred) ordered that killing of all the Danes in the country. as I understand it England didn't have anything analogues to a police force or a standing army back then, that being the case who would have been charged with actually carrying out that genocide?

by /u/grapp in /r/AskHistorians

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