Yet murder, enslavement, forcible population transfers, torture, rape: North Korea commits nearly every atrocity that counts as a crime against humanity.

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In the US, National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said "the characterisation of Zionism as a crime against humanity... is offensive and wrong".

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"The court decides to sentence Saddam Hussein to death by hanging for committing willful killing as a crime against humanity, " the judge intoned.

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The firms are accused of doing business with, and supporting, the white-minority South African government even after a United Nations ruling that apartheid was a crime against humanity.

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Some councils have warned the scheme - for England - will be a "free-for-all", but Mr Boles said he did not "see it as a crime against humanity".

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Taubira, from French Guinea, has served as French deputy in the Assembly since 1993, during which time she proposed a law that recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as a crime against humanity.

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This government's policy is a crime against humanity.

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Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier this week called Zionism a "crime against humanity" - remarks that have been widely condemned, and which Mr Kerry on Friday called "objectionable".

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The U.K. dealt with this crime against humanity in a manner consistent with liberal democracy and the rule of law.

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"We are gratified with this latest arrest and hope that justice will be served on all of those who were involved in this crime against humanity, " they said in a statement.

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