Crimes against humanity.

GENOCIDE means “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.” —United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted on December 9, 1948 CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY means any of specified violent acts such as murder, extermination, or enslavement when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack. —Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, adopted on July 18, 1998 GENOCIDE IN DARFUR: Darfur Eyewitness Teacher Guide This lesson works well when taught in conjunction with studying the Holocaust.