CHAPTER III — CRIMINAL OFFENCES

PART 12 — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER

Division 2 — Genocide

Genocide by deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction

79.— (1) A person (the perpetrator) commits an indictable offence if—

(a) the perpetrator inflicts certain conditions of life upon one or more persons ; and
(b) the person or persons belong to a particular national, ethnical, racial or religious group ; and
(c) the perpetrator intends to destroy (in whole or in part) that national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such ; and
(d) the conditions of life are intended to bring about the physical destruction of that group, in whole or in part.

CHAPTER III — CRIMINAL OFFENCES

PART 12 — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER

Division 2 — Genocide

Genocide by deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction

79.— (2) In sub-section (1)—
“conditions of life” includes, but is not limited to intentional deprivation of resources indispensable for
survival, such as deprivation of food or medical services, or systematic expulsion from homes.

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:
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its
physical destruction in whole or in part