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The International Convention of the Prevention and Punishment
of the Crime of Genocide on December 9, 1948 set the United
Nations definition of genocide
General
Assembly Resolution 260A (III) Article 2
In the
present Convention, 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:
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(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 |
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