'Genocide' in document 'Rwanda - Law repressing crime of genocide, CAH and war crimes'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

Chapter 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1:
This law represses the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Chapter 2. THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE AND ITS SANCTIONS

Article 2:
The crime of genocide shall mean one of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, regional, ethnical, racial or religious group, whether in time of peace or in time of war:
1° killing members of the group ;
2° causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group ;
3° deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part ;
4° imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group ;
5° forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.


Article 3:
Shall be sentenced to death any person who will have committed, in time of peace or in time of war, the crime of genocide as defined in Article 2 of this law.


Article 4:
Shall be sentenced to an imprisonment of ten (10) to twenty (20) years, any person who will have publicly shown, by his or her words, writings, images, or by any other means, that he or she has negated the genocide committed, rudely minimised it or attempted to justify or approve its grounds, or any person who will have hidden or destroyed its evidence.
Where the crimes mentioned in the preceding paragraph are committed by an association or a political party, its dissolution shall be pronounced.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

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.