When Interpol Comes Calling…™
When Interpol Comes Calling…
You may be charged with: Crimes Against Humanity
The term was first used in its contemporary context in 1915. The massacres of Turkey’s Armenian population were denounced as crimes against humanity in a declaration of three allied powers pledging that those responsible would be held personally accountable. The term crimes against humanity reappeared in 1945 as one of three categories of offenses within the jurisdiction of the Nuremberg Tribunal. Over the years since 1945, there have been several variants on the definition.
The Statute defines ‘crime against humanity’ as any of the following 11 acts, when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack, directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack.
The acts constituting ‘crime against humanity’ are:
- murder
- extermination
- enslavement
- deportation or forcible transfer
- imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty
- torture
- sexual violance
- rape
- sexual slavery
- enforcement prostitution
- forced pregnancy
- enforced sterilization
- any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity
- persecution
- enforced disappearance of persons
- apartheid
- other inhumane acts