THE SPECIAL PART

Chapter 4. Crimes Against Peace and Safety of Mankind

Article 160. Genocide

Genocide, that is deliberate acts aimed at complete or partial destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group by murdering members of such a group, the causation of severe damage to their health, forcible prohibition of the birth of children, forcible transfer of children, forcible migration or the creation of other conditions of life which lead to destruction of members of a given group, -

shall be punished by imprisonment for a period from ten to twenty years, or by capital punishment or life-time imprisonment.

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.