genocide

Genocide is a crime outlined by the Genocide Convention as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group:

  • Killing members of the group;
  • Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
  • Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
  • Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
  • Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Genocide may also encompass cultural genocide, which is defined as acts and measures undertaken to destroy nations' or ethnic groups' culture through spiritual, national, and cultural destruction separate from personal violence.

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