“Crimes against humanity” was first used in 1915 by the Allied governments including France, Great Britain and Russia and the United States. When the mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire was happening and the declaration was finally said( except for US). Moreover, the term was more known for the events that happened after World War II in 1945 when the Holocaust happening killing over 6 million jewish people. The crimes against humanity were for the first time prosecuted at the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg. When people who particiapating in these mass killings were put on trial and sentenced to death or another punishment.
Since then, the notion of crimes against humanity has evolved and gone through multiple changes because of the many definitions that go into and associate with law. Crimes against humanity have not yet been inputed worldwide as an treaty with an international law, unlike genocide and war crimes. Although there are efforts to do this, many still wonder what these crimes fully entitle. The definition our nation uses for the crimes against humanity is that it consists of any acts committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack can cause: mass murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture, rape, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender. This also include other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
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