Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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crime against humanity

Int'l law. A -bt tttal crime that is not an isolated incident but that involves large and systematic actions, often cloaked with official authority, and that shocks the conscience of humankind. 0 Among the specific crimes that fall within this category are mass murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts perpel rated against a population, whether in wartime or not.