Risk Factor 12. Signs of a plan or policy to attack any civilian population: Facts or evidence suggestive of a State or organizational policy, even if not explicitly stipulated or formally adopted, to commit serious acts of violence directed against any civilian population.
Indicators
12.1 Official documents, political manifestos, media records, or any other documentation through which the existence of a State or organizational plan or policy to target civilian populations or protected groups is directly revealed or could be inferred.
12.2 Adoption of discriminatory security procedures against different groups of the civilian population.
12.3 Adoption of measures that result in the alteration of the ethnic, religious, racial, or political composition of the overall population, including in defined geographical areas.
12.4 Establishment of parallel institutions or autonomous political or military structures, or organization of a network of potential perpetrators belonging to a specific ethnic, religious, national, racial, or political group.
12.5 Preparation and use of significant public or private resources, whether military or other kinds.
12.6 Access to and use of weaponry or other instruments is not easily obtained inside the country.
12.7 Preparation or mobilization of armed forces en-masse against civilian populations.
12.8 Facilitating or inciting violence against the civilian population or protected groups, or tolerance or deliberate failure to take action, to encourage violent acts.
12.9 Widespread or systematic violence against civilian populations or protected groups, including only parts of them, as well as on their livelihoods, property, or cultural manifestations.
12.10 Involvement of State institutions or high-level political or military authorities in violent acts.
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