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For the purpose of paragraph 1:
a)
b)
c)
qd)
e)
‘Attack directed against any civilian population’ means a course of
conduct involving the multiple commission of acts referred to in
paragraph 1 against any civilian population, pursuant to or in
furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack;
‘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;
‘Enslavement’ means the exercise of any or all of the powers
attaching to the right of ownership over a person and includes the
exercise of such power in the course of trafficking in persons, in
particular women and children;
‘Deportation or
displacement of
coercive acts from
grounds permitted
forcible transfer of population’ means forced
the persons concerned by expulsion or other
the area in which they are lawfully present, without
under international law;
‘Torture’ means the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering,
whether physical or mental, upon a person in the custody or under
the control of the accused; except that torture shall not include pain
f)
g)
or suffering
sanctions;
‘Forced
arising
pregnancy’
only
from,
means
inherent
the unlawful
in or
incidental
confinement
to,
lawful
of a woman
forcibly made pregnant, with the intent of affecting the ethnic
composition of any population or carrying out other grave violations
of international law. This definition shall not in any way be interpreted
as affecting national laws relating to pregnancy;
‘Persecution’ means the intentional and severe deprivation of
fundamental rights contrary to international law by reason of the
identity of the group or collectivity;
‘The crime of apartheid’ means inhumane acts of a character similar
to those referred to in paragraph 1, committed in the context of an
institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by
one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed
with the intention of maintaining that regime;
‘Enforced disappearance of persons’ means the arrest, detention or
abduction of persons by, or with the authorization, support or
acquiescence of, a State or a political organization, followed by a
refusal
to
acknowledge
that
deprivation
of
freedom
or
to
give
information on the fate or whereabouts of those persons, with the
intention of removing them from the protection of the law for a
prolonged period of time