Crimes against humanity

Article 5 of the ECCC Law The Extraordinary Chambers shall have the power to bring to trial all Suspects who committed crimes against humanity during the period 17 April 1975 to 6 January 1979. Crimes against humanity, which have no satute of limitations, are any acts committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, on national, political, ethnical, racial or religious grounds, such as: •murder; •extermination; •enslavement; •deportation; •imprisonment; •torture; •rape; •persecutions on political, racial, and religious grounds; •other inhumane acts.