'Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group' in document 'Fiji - Crimes decree 2009'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

CHAPTER III — CRIMINAL OFFENCES

PART 12 — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER

Division 2 — Genocide

Genocide by imposing measures intended to prevent births

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

(a) the perpetrator imposes certain measures 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 measures imposed are intended to prevent births within that group.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

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:
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group