Constitution of Bangladesh

PART III - FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS

47 (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Constitution no law nor any provision thereof providing for detention prosecution or punishment of any person who is a member of any armed or defence or auxiliary forces or any individual group of individuals or organisation] or who is a prisoner of war for genocide crimes against humanity or war crimes and other crimes under international law shall be deemed void or unlawful or ever to have become void or unlawful on the ground that such law or provision of any such law is inconsistent with or repugnant to any of the provisions of this Constitution.

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.