Genocide

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Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

  • ( a ) Killing members of the group;
    • Includes direct killing and actions causing death.
  • ( 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.


It is a crime to plan or incite genocide, even before killing starts, and to aid or abet genocide. The following acts shall be punishable:

  • ( a ) Genocide;
  • ( b ) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
  • ( c ) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
  • ( d ) Attempt to commit genocide;
  • ( e ) Complicity in genocide.