Crimes against humanity

Crimes against humanity are crimes that are committed against a large group of people who have not done anything wrong. Groups who commit crimes against humanity do not hurt just one person, or just a few people. They want to hurt an entire group of people that they do not like. For example, in Nazi Germany during The Holocaust, the Nazis tried to kill all of the Jewish people in Europe. This is an example of a crime against humanity.

Unlike war crimes, crimes against humanity can happen during peace or war, and against people who do not fulfill the criteria of protected persons in an international armed conflict under international humanitarian law.^[1]

1. ↑ DeGuzman, Margaret M. (2012). "Crimes Against Humanity". In Bartram S. Brown (ed.). Research Handbook on International Law. Edward Elgar Publishers. ISBN 978-0857933447.