Ghana

Criminal Code, 1960 (Act 29)

PART II—OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON

CHAPTER 2—CRIMINAL HOMICIDE AND SIMILAR OFFENCES

Murder and Manslaughter, Etc.

Section 49A—Genocide.

(1) Whoever commits genocide shall on conviction be sentenced to death.

(2) A person commits genocide where with intent to destroy, in whole or in part any national, ethnical, racial or religious group he—

(a) kills members of the group ;
(b) causes serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group ;
(c) deliberately inflicts on the group conditions of life calculated to bring its physical destruction in whole or in part ;
(d) imposes measures intended to prevent births within the group ; or
(e) forcibly transfers children of the group to another group.

Keywords

Genocide



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