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A/HRC/37/72/CRP.1 23 perpetrator has knowledge of the attack.19 For purposes of this report, the relevant crimes constituting crimes against humanity include: murder; imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law; torture; rape, sexual slavery, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity; persecution; and other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.20 Forced marriages may also amount to crimes against humanity.21 110. The Commission has previously found that the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic perpetrated the crimes of humanity of extermination, murder, rape or other forms of sexual violence, torture, and imprisonment in the context of widespread detentions (see A/HRC/31/CRP.1.). The Commission also determined that ISIL was responsible for the crimes against humanity of murder and torture and other forms of ill-treatment (see A/HRC/32/CRP.2.). D. Genocide 111. Article II of the 1948 Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, to which the Syrian Arab Republic is a State Party, states that the crime of genocide is committed when a person commits a prohibited act with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such. Prohibited acts are (a) killing members of the group; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.22 112. The crime of genocide requires that the perpetrator have a special intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a protected group. The genocidal acts must be committed against a person because of their membership in a particular group and as an incremental step in ...