ABSTRACT

Article I The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish. Article II In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) killing members of the group; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the groups; (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring

about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.