Article 138: For the purpose of article 137:
1° "Attack directed against any civilian population" means a course of conduct involving the
multiple commission of acts referred to in article 137 against any civilian population, pursuant to
or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack;
2° "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;
3° "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;
4° "Deportation or forcible transfer of population" means forced displacement of the persons
concerned by expulsion or other coercive acts from the area in which they are lawfully present,
without grounds permitted under international law;
5° "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 or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to, lawful sanctions;
6° "Forced pregnancy" means the unlawful confinement 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;
7° "Persecution" means the intentional and severe deprivation of fundamental rights contrary to
international law by reason of the identity of the group or collectivity;
8° "The crime of apartheid" means inhumane acts of a character similar to those referred to in
article, 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;
9° "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;
10°"gender" refers to the two sexes, male and female.
Section 3: War crimes
Article 139: Anyone who commits a war crime is punished with life imprisonment.
Are war crimes:
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