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 | For the purpose of this Statute, ``genocide'' means any of the 
following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in 
part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: 
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 | (a) killing members of the group; | 
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 | (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the 
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 | (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life 
calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or 
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 | (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the 
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 | (e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another 
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 | 1. 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: 
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 | (d) deportation or forcible transfer of population; | 
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 | (e) imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical 
liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law; | 
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 | (g) rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced 
pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual 
violence of comparable gravity; | 
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 | (h) persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity 
on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender 
as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally 
recognized as impermissible under international law, in 
connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any 
crime within the jurisdiction of the Court; | 
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 | (i) enforced disappearance of persons; | 
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 | (j) the crime of apartheid; | 
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 | (k) other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally 
causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental 
or physical health. | 
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 | (a) ``attack directed against any civilian population'' means a 
course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts 
referred to in paragraph 1 against any civilian population, 
pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy 
to commit such attack; | 
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 | (b) ``extermination'' includes the intentional infliction of 
conditions of life, inter alia the deprivation of access to food 
and medicine, calculated to bring about the destruction of part 
of a population; | 
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 | (c) ``enslavement'' means the exercise of any or all of the 
powers attaching to the right of ownership over a person and 
includes the exercise of such power in the course of trafficking 
in persons, in particular women and children; | 
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 | (d) ``deportation or forcible transfer of population'' means 
forced displacement of the persons concerned by expulsion or 
other coercive acts from the area in which they are lawfully 
present, without grounds permitted under international law; | 
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 | (e) ``torture'' means the intentional infliction of severe pain or 
suffering, whether physical or mental, upon a person in the 
custody or under the control of the accused; except that torture 
shall not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent 
in or incidental to, lawful sanctions; | 
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 | (f) ``forced pregnancy'' means the unlawful confinement of a 
woman forcibly made pregnant, with the intent of affecting 
the ethnic composition of any population or carrying out other 
grave violations of international law. This definition shall not 
in any way be interpreted as affecting national laws relating to 
pregnancy; | 
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 | (g) ``persecution'' means the intentional and severe 
deprivation of fundamental rights contrary to international 
law by reason of the identity of the group or collectivity; | 
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 | (h) ``the crime of apartheid'' means inhumane acts of a 
character similar to those referred to in paragraph 1, 
committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of 
systematic oppression and domination by one racial group 
over any other racial group or groups and committed with the 
intention of maintaining that regime; | 
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 | (i) ``enforced disappearance of persons'' means the arrest, 
detention or abduction of persons by, or with the 
authorization, support or acquiescence of, a State or a political 
organization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge that 
deprivation of freedom or to give information on the fate or 
whereabouts of those persons, with the intention of removing 
them from the protection of the law for a prolonged period of 
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 | 3. For the purpose of this Statute, it is understood that the term 
``gender'' refers to the two sexes, male and female, within the 
context of society. The term ``gender'' does not indicate any 
meaning different from the above. 
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 | 2. For the purpose of this Statute, ``war crimes'' means: 
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 | (a) grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 
1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or 
property protected under the provisions of the relevant 
Geneva Convention: | 
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 | (ii) torture or inhuman treatment, including biological 
experiments;
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 | (iii) wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to 
body or health;
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 | (iv) extensive destruction and appropriation of property, 
not justified by military necessity and carried out 
unlawfully and wantonly;
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 | (v) compelling a prisoner of war or other protected person 
to serve in the forces of a hostile Power;
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 | (vi) wilfully depriving a prisoner of war or other protected 
person of the rights of fair and regular trial;
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 | (vii) unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful 
confinement;
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 | (viii) taking of hostages.
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 | (b) other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable 
in international armed conflict, within the established 
framework of international law, namely, any of the following 
acts: | 
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 | (i) intentionally directing attacks against the civilian 
population as such or against individual civilians not taking 
direct part in hostilities;
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 | (ii) intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, 
that is, objects which are not military objectives;
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 | (iii) intentionally directing attacks against personnel, 
installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a 
humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission in 
accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, as long 
as they are entitled to the protection given to civilians or 
civilian objects under the international law of armed 
conflict;
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 | (iv) intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that 
such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to 
civilians or damage to civilian objects or widespread, 
long-term and severe damage to the natural environment 
which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete 
and direct overall military advantage anticipated;
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 | (v) attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, 
villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and 
which are not military objectives;
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 | (vi) killing or wounding a combatant who, having laid 
down his arms or having no longer means of defence, has 
surrendered at discretion;
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 | (vii) making improper use of a flag of truce, of the flag or 
of the military insignia and uniform of the enemy or of the 
United Nations, as well as of the distinctive emblems of the 
Geneva Conventions, resulting in death or serious personal 
injury;
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 | (viii) the transfer, directly or indirectly, by the Occupying 
Power of parts of its own civilian population into the 
territory it occupies, or the deportation or transfer of all or 
parts of the population of the occupied territory within or 
outside this territory;
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 | (ix) intentionally directing attacks against buildings 
dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable 
purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where 
the sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not 
military objectives;
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 | (x) subjecting persons who are in the power of an adverse 
party to physical mutilation or to medical or scientific 
experiments of any kind which are neither justified by the 
medical, dental or hospital treatment of the person 
concerned nor carried out in his or her interest, and which 
cause death to or seriously endanger the health of such 
person or persons;
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 | (xi) killing or wounding treacherously individuals 
belonging to the hostile nation or army;
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 | (xii) declaring that no quarter will be given;
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 | (xiii) destroying or seizing the enemy's property unless 
such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by 
the necessities of war;
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 | (xiv) declaring abolished, suspended or inadmissible in a 
court of law the rights and actions of the nationals of the 
hostile party;
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 | (xv) compelling the nationals of the hostile party to take 
part in the operations of war directed against their own 
country, even if they were in the belligerent's service before 
the commencement of the war;
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 | (xvi) pillaging a town or place, even when taken by assault;
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 | (xvii) employing poison or poisoned weapons;
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 | (xviii) employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, 
and all analogous liquids, materials or devices;
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 | (xix) employing bullets which expand or flatten easily in 
the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which 
does not entirely cover the core or is pierced with incisions;
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 | (xx) employing weapons, projectiles and material and 
methods of warfare which are of a nature to cause 
superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering or which are 
inherently indiscriminate in violation of the international 
law of armed conflict, provided that such weapons, 
projectiles and material and methods of warfare are the 
subject of a comprehensive prohibition and are included in 
an annex to this Statute, by an amendment in accordance 
with the relevant provisions set forth in articles 121 and 
123;
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 | (xxi) committing outrages upon personal dignity, in 
particular humiliating and degrading treatment;
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 | (xxii) committing rape, sexual slavery, enforced 
prostitution, forced pregnancy, as defined in article 7, 
paragraph 2(f), enforced sterilization, or any other form of 
sexual violence also constituting a grave breach of the 
Geneva Conventions;
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 | (xxiii) utilizing the presence of a civilian or other protected 
person to render certain points, areas or military forces 
immune from military operations;
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 | (xxiv) intentionally directing attacks against buildings, 
material, medical units and transport, and personnel using 
the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions in 
conformity with international law;
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 | (xxv) intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method 
of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to 
their survival, including wilfully impeding relief supplies 
as provided for under the Geneva Conventions;
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 | (xxvi) conscripting or enlisting children under the age of 
fifteen years into the national armed forces or using them 
to participate actively in hostilities.
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 | (c) in the case of an armed conflict not of an international 
character, serious violations of article 3 common to the four 
Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the 
following acts committed against persons taking no active 
part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who 
have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by 
sickness, wounds, detention or any other cause: | 
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 | (i) violence to life and person, in particular murder of all 
kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;
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 | (ii) committing outrages upon personal dignity, in 
particular humiliating and degrading treatment;
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 | (iii) taking of hostages;
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 | (iv) the passing of sentences and the carrying out of 
executions without previous judgement pronounced by a 
regularly constituted court, affording all judicial 
guarantees which are generally recognized as 
indispensable.
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 | (d) paragraph 2(c) applies to armed conflicts not of an 
international character and thus does not apply to situations of 
internal disturbances and tensions, such as riots, isolated and 
sporadic acts of violence or other acts of a similar nature. | 
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 | (e) other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable 
in armed conflicts not of an international character, within the 
established framework of international law, namely, any of the 
following acts: | 
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 | (i) intentionally directing attacks against the civilian 
population as such or against individual civilians not taking 
direct part in hostilities;
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 | (ii) intentionally directing attacks against buildings, 
material, medical units and transport, and personnel using 
the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions in 
conformity with international law;
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 | (iii) intentionally directing attacks against personnel, 
installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a 
humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission in 
accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, as long 
as they are entitled to the protection given to civilians or 
civilian objects under the international law of armed 
conflict;
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 | (iv) intentionally directing attacks against buildings 
dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable 
purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where 
the sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not 
military objectives;
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 | (v) pillaging a town or place, even when taken by assault;
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 | (vi) committing rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, 
forced pregnancy, as defined in article 7, paragraph 2(f), 
enforced sterilization, and any other form of sexual 
violence also constituting a serious violation of article 3 
common to the four Geneva Conventions;
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 | (vii) conscripting or enlisting children under the age of 
fifteen years into armed forces or groups or using them to 
participate actively in hostilities;
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 | (viii) ordering the displacement of the civilian population 
for reasons related to the conflict, unless the security of the 
civilians involved or imperative military reasons so 
demand;
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 | (ix) killing or wounding treacherously a combatant 
adversary;
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 | (x) declaring that no quarter will be given;
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 | (xi) subjecting persons who are in the power of another 
party to the conflict to physical mutilation or to medical or 
scientific experiments of any kind which are neither 
justified by the medical, dental or hospital treatment of the 
person concerned nor carried out in his or her interest, and 
which cause death to or seriously endanger the health of 
such person or persons;
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 | (xii) destroying or seizing the property of an adversary 
unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively 
demanded by the necessities of the conflict;
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 | (f) paragraph 2(e) applies to armed conflicts not of an 
international character and thus does not apply to situations of 
internal disturbances and tensions, such as riots, isolated and 
sporadic acts of violence or other acts of a similar nature. It 
applies to armed conflicts that take place in the territory of a 
State when there is protracted armed conflict between 
governmental authorities and organized armed groups or 
between such groups. | 
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