Rwanda

Law N°33 BIS/2003 repressing 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.

Keywords

Genocide



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