CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY under Article 7 Rome Statute include any of th…

Question

CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY under Article 7 Rome Statute include any of the following acts committed as part of a:

Accepted Answer

A. WIDESPREAD OR SYSTEMATIC ATTACK directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack

1. Article 7(1) Rome Statute: '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:
2. (a) murder; (b) extermination; (c) enslavement; (d) deportation or forcible transfer of population; (e) imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty; (f) torture; (g) rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity; (h) persecution; (i) enforced disappearance; (j) the crime of apartheid; (k) other inhumane acts of a similar character.'
3. The 'widespread or systematic attack' against civilians is the contextual chapeau element.
4. Hence option A is correct.
_Source: UN Charter 1945 / Vienna Convention on Law of Treaties 1969 / Geneva Conventions 1949 / ICJ Statute / UDHR ICCPR ICESCR — Rome Statute of the ICC 1998, Article 7_

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localised raid against another armed group only, with no civilian targeting (cf. Rome Statute of the ICC 1998, Article 7)

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single isolated act with no broader campaign or pattern of violence (cf. Rome Statute of the ICC 1998, Article 7)

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purely economic or trade discriminatory measure of any kind (cf. Rome Statute of the ICC 1998, Article 7)