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crime against humanity

noun as in atrocity

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“If intelligence communication is only used for killing boatmen with missiles, not only is it irrational, but it’s also a crime against humanity,” Petro said, adding that information would only be shared with guarantees that it would be used to capture suspects instead of killing them.

District Judge Rahul Choudhary in the northern city of Udaipur explained the death penalty saying the murder fell in the category of "rarest of the rare" and it was "a crime against humanity".

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"It will not be an exaggeration to say that this heart-rending brutal crime was not just against Lakshmi, but it's a crime against humanity," Judge Choudhary said in his order.

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This is not urban development, it is ethnic cleansing on a mass scale, a war crime and a crime against humanity.

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Huckabee, who is also an evangelical pastor known for his past strong statements supporting Jewish settlements, which are seen as illegal under international law, wrote on X. "Desecrating a church, mosque or synagogue is a crime against humanity and God."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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