SPECIAL PART
CHAPTER XIII
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
Crimes Against Humanity
Section 143
(1) Any persons who - being part of a widespread or systematic practice:
a) commits murder;
b) forces the civilian population, in part or in whole, to live under conditions threatening the
demise of that population or certain members thereof;
c) orders the displacement of the civilian population, in part or in whole, from their rightful
place of residence;
d) engages in the trafficking in human beings or in exploitation in the form of forced labor;
e) deprives another person of his personal freedom, or unlawfully maintains his abduction;
f) forces another person to commit or tolerate sexual violence, forces others into prostitution or
to bear a child, or into illegal abortion;
g) causes serious bodily or mental injury to others;
h) deprives other persons of their basic rights for reasons of their affiliation with a group on the
grounds of political opinion, nationality, ethnic origin, culture, religion, sex or any other reason; is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment between ten to twenty years or with life imprisonment.
(2) Any person who engages in preparations for crimes against humanity is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment between two to eight years.
(3) In the application of this Section widespread or systematic assault on the civilian population shall include all conduct which covers the acts defined under Subsection (1) committed systematically against the civilian population aiming to implement or facilitate the policies of a State or organization.
1. A los efectos del presente Estatuto, se entenderá por "crimen de lesa humanidad" cualquiera de los actos siguientes cuando se cometa como parte de un ataque generalizado o sistemático contra una población civil y con conocimiento de dicho ataque:
(h) Persecución de un grupo o colectividad con identidad propia fundada en motivos políticos, raciales, nacionales, étnicos, culturales, religiosos, de género definido en el párrafo 3, u otros motivos universalmente reconocidos como inaceptables con arreglo al derecho internacional, en conexión con cualquier acto mencionado en el presente párrafo o con cualquier crimen de la competencia de la Corte;
2. A los efectos del párrafo 1:
(g) Por "persecución" se entenderá la privación intencional y grave de derechos fundamentales en contravención del derecho internacional en razón de la identidad del grupo o de la colectividad;
3. A los efectos del presente Estatuto se entenderá que el término "género" se refiere a los dos sexos, masculino y femenino, en el contexto de la sociedad. El término "género" no tendrá más acepción que la que antecede.