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UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON GENOCIDE

"Art. 2. In the present convention, 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:

  • 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."

 

The Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Relations. New York: Taylor and Francis, 1990. Excerpt from p.328.


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