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Crimes against Humanity
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| Widespread or systematic attacks against a civilian population. These crimes include murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture, sexual violence, kidnapping, and the crime of apartheid. |
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| The killing of members of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; and deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life that will bring about its physical destruction. |
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| Wilful killing, torture, or inhumane treatment;wilfully causing great suffering; and intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population or against people involved in a humanitarian or peacekeeping mission. |
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Collective Farms
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| State-owned farms on which people work as labourers. Under Stalin's rule, many Ukrainian farmers who owned their land were forced to give their farms to the state so they could be turned into collective farms. |
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| The English term used to describe the genocide of about six million Jews by the Nazis during World War II. |
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Ethnic Cleansing
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| A term that is used to make more socially acceptable the murder and expulsion of an ethnic nation. |
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