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Acts intended to cause major suffering or serious impairment of physical or mental health qualify as crimes against humanity when these are committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population. In particular this includes murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, deprivation of freedom in violation of the basic principles of international law, →Torture, rape, sexual enslavement, enforced prostitution, enforced pregnancy, enforced sterilisation and similar forms of serious sexual violence, persecution on political, racial, nationalist, ethnic, cultural, religious or gender specific grounds, apartheid as well as the →Enforced disappearance of persons.
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