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Rome Statute of the International
Criminal Court - Article 6 (genocide)
Adopted on 17
July 1998.
Entry into force: 1 July 2002. List of ratifications and signatures
For updated information, see:www.icc-cpi.int
or http://www.iccnow.org
For Full text of the Rome Statute: Click Here (PDF file on UN website)
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
Article 6
Genocide
For the purpose of this Statute, "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.
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