Chapter 2 Punishment of Crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court

Article 8 (Genocide)

Any person who kills a member of a national, ethnical, racial or religious group with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, shall be punished by capital punishment, imprisonment for life or no less than 7 years. For the purpose of paragraph (1), any person who commits any of the following acts shall be subject to imprisonment for life or no less than 5 years.
1. The act of causing serious physical or mental harm to a member or members of the group.
2. The act of inflicting on the group conditions of life deliberately calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.
3. The act of imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.
4. The act of transferring children of the group forcibly to another group. Any person who causes a death with any act stipulated in paragraph (2) shall be subject to the punishment provided in Article 1.
Any person who instigates offences in paragraph (1) and (2) shall be subject to imprisonment for no less than 5 years.
Any person who attempts a crime in paragraph (1) and (2) shall be punished.

Article 5
Crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court
1. The jurisdiction of the Court shall be limited to the most serious crimes of concern to the
international community as a whole. The Court has jurisdiction in accordance with this Statute
with respect to the following crimes:
(a) The crime of genocide

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.