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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.
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.