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CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST HUMANITY AND OTHER VALUES GUARANTEED BY INTERNATIONAL LAW
Crimes against humanity
Article 427
Anyone who by breaching the rules of international law, within the limits of a wider or systematic attack against civilian population, orders any of the following : murders ; placing the population or its part under such living conditions as to bring about their complete or partial extermination ; enslavement ; forced displacement ; torture ; rape ; coercion to prostitution ; coercion to pregnancy or sterilization with a view to changing the ethnic composition of the population ; persecution or expulsion on political, religious, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, sexual or any other grounds ; detention or abduction of persons without disclosing information thereon so as to deprive them of legal assistance ; oppression of a racial group or establishment of domination of one such group over another ; or any other similar inhuman acts intended to cause serious suffering or seriously harm health ; or who commits any of the said offences shall be punished by a prison term not shorter than five years or by a forty year prison term.
Article 7
Crimes against humanity
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:
(d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population
2. For the purpose of paragraph 1:
(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;