Crime against humanity
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In international law, a crime against humanity consists of acts of persecution or any large scale atrocities against a body of people, as being the criminal offence above all others.
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See also
- Rule of Law in Armed Conflicts Project (RULAC)
- Charter of the United Nations
- Command responsibility
- Council of Europe
- Customary international law
- Democide
- Ethnic cleansing
- Geneva Conventions
- George Washington Williams
- Historical revisionism (negationism)
- Human rights
- Interpol
- Mass murder
- Terrorism
- Torture
- Victor's justice
- War crimes
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