Atrocity or ''Atrocities'' or ''Atrocious'' may refer to:
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Atrocity (band), a German metal band
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''Atrocities'' (album), the fourth album by Christian Death
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Mass atrocity crimes, international crimes of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity
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''Atrocious'' (film), a 2010 Spanish film
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Atrocity, a crime against scheduled castes or scheduled tribes in India
See also
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Cruelty
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Crime
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a State (polity), state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definiti ...
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War crime
A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostage ...
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Crime against humanity
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Genocide
Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people. Raphael Lemkin, who first coined the term, defined genocide as "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group" by ...
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Dilemma
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