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BOOK II
SPECIAL PART
TITLE I
CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND HUMANITY
CHAPTER I
CRIMES OF GENOCIDE AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
Article 124. Crimes against humanity
Any person who, within the context of a widespread or systematic attack against any civilian population, commits acts that result in :
b) Extermination, construed as subjection of the whole or part of a population to adverse living conditions, such as deprivation of access to food and medicine, apt to cause death of one or more persons ;
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:
(b) Extermination
2. For the purpose of paragraph 1:
(b) ‘Extermination’ includes the intentional infliction of conditions of life,
inter alia the deprivation of access to food and medicine, calculated to
bring about the destruction of part of a population;