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A crime against humanity is an act of persecution against a group so heinous as to warrant punishment under international law. The term was first used in the preamble of the Hague Convention of 1907, and subsequently used during the Nuremberg trials as a charge for actions such as the Holocaust which did not violate a specific treaty but were deemed to require punishment.
The term has been criticized for being extremely vague and for being politically defined. For example, Nazi attempts to eliminate certain ethnic groups are widely recognized as having been crimes against humanity, yet Soviet persectution of certain economic groups and systematic persecution of African people by the South African apartheid government are not.
In its Article 7, the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court in 2003 says:
- For the purpose of this Statute, "crime against humanity" means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack: (a) Murder; (b) Extermination; (c) Enslavement; ... [1] (http://www.preventgenocide.org/law/icc/statute/part-a.htm#2)
See also: Genocide, mass murder, war crime, crime against peace, state terrorism, ethnic cleansing, Nuremberg Principles, and Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
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fr:Crime contre l'humanité
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