'Extermination - crimes against humanity' in document 'Hungary - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

SPECIAL PART

Chapter XI
Crimes Against Humanity

Title I
Crimes Against Peace

Apartheid

Section 157

(1) The person who - with the aim of the obtention and maintenance of domination by one racial group of people over another racial group of people and/or with the aim of the regular oppression of the other racial group -

b) constrains a racial group or groups to such conditions of life by which it strives for the total or partial physical annihilation of the groups

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 7
Crimes against humanity
1. For the purpose of this Statute, "crime against humanity" means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
(b) Extermination

2. For the purpose of paragraph 1:
(b) ‘Extermination’ includes the intentional infliction of conditions of life,
inter alia the deprivation of access to food and medicine, calculated to
bring about the destruction of part of a population;