The phrase "to destroy the village" means causing harm or damage to a community or group of people, often done in order to achieve a particular objective or goal. Full definition
Before they know it, they are in a situation of having to destroy a village in order to save it, are in a plane over Hiroshima or Nagasaki. (religion-online.org)
The project uses the trips taken by young Palestinians to sites of destroyed villages as an avatar to think about the possibility of using the site of wreckage as the very material from which to trace the faint contours of another possible time. (carrollfletcher.com)
The result is that the application of economic theory to development, whether in rural North America or in the Third World, systematically destroys village life. (religion-online.org)