crime against humanity
Systematic civilian persecution
A crime against humanity is an atrocity committed against civilians as part of a widespread or systematic attack—murder, enslavement, torture, rape, deportation, or persecution of a group.
The term emerged from the Nuremberg trials after World War II and now anchors international law.
Unlike war crimes, crimes against humanity can occur during peacetime: The tribunal charged him with crimes against humanity for the ethnic cleansing campaign.
- forced sterilizationInvoluntary surgical infertility
- massacreLarge-scale unlawful killing
- genocideSystematic annihilation of a people
- ethnic cleansingSystematic removal of populations
- ethnic violenceAggression based on ancestry
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