TITLE XXIV
Offences against the International Community
CHAPTER II BIS
Crimes against humanity
Article 607 bis
1. Those who commit the offences set out below as part of a generalized or systematic attack against the whole or part of the civilian population shall be guilty of crimes against humanity.
In any event, the commission of such offences shall be considered to be crimes against humanity:
1st. Where they take place because of membership of any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender or other grounds universally recognized as impermissible under international law.
Persecution - crimes against humanity
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