Trinidad and Tobago

The International Criminal Court Act 2006

PART II INTERNATIONAL CRIMES AND OFFENCES AGAINST
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

International Crimes

9. (1) Every person is liable on conviction on indictment to the penalty specified in subsection (3) who, in Trinidad and Tobago or elsewhere—
(a) commits genocide; or
(b) conspires or agrees with any person to commit genocide, whether that genocide takes place in Trinidad and Tobago or else¬where.

(2) For the purposes of this section, “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; or
(e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

(3) The penalty for genocide, or conspiring with, or agreeing with any person to commit genocide is—
(a) if the offence involves the wilful killing of a person, the same as the penalty for murder; and
(b) in any other case, imprisonment for life or a lesser term

Keywords

Genocide



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