Extermination

Extermination is a crime against humanity consisting of the act of killing on a large scale, including causing death by depriving a civilian population of food, medicine, or other necessities calculated to bring about its destruction. The crime was first prosecuted at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg following the Second World War, after which it became part of customary international law and was formally codified as a crime against humanity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 1998. Extermination requires both a physical act and criminal intent as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population, but unlike genocide it does not require an intent to destroy a specific ethnic, religious, or national group, so a discriminatory motive is not an element of the charge. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/