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Genocide
    Article 4

    Genocide

    1. The International Tribunal shall have the power to prosecute persons committing genocide as defined in paragraph 2 of this article or of committing any of the other acts enumerated in paragraph 3 of this article.

    2. 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;

    (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.

    3. 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.


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