-WHAT IS GENOCIDE? Genocide is foremost an international crime for
which individuals, no matter how high in authority, may be indicted,
tried, and punished by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
According to Article 6 of the ICC Statute, This crime involves, "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." [more]
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