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Crimes Against Humanity: Crimes against humanity are 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:

  1. murder
  2. extermination
  3. enslavement
  4. deportation or forcible transfer of population
  5. imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law
  6. torture
  7. rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity
  8. persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law
  9. enforced disappearance of persons
  10. the crime of apartheid
  11. other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.