Tag: war crimes

Crimes Against Humanity

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Crimes against humanity are criminal acts that are directed at an identifiable group of people. Genocide is an example of a crime against humanity. The Holocaust that took place during World War II was a crime against humanity. Crimes against humanity are typically motivated by the target group’s religion, ethnicity, or some other trait that is not the direct result […]

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Ethnic Cleansing

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The term ethnic cleansing refers to the removal of people who belong to a specific ethnic or religious group from a country, whether by forcefully displacing them, or by killing them. The goal of such actions is to establish an ethnically uniform country, or other geographic region. In addition to removing people, ethnic cleansing often involves removing any physical, cultural […]

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