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Section 130D — Genocide

As in force on 1 October 2017.

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130D.Genocide

A person commits genocide who, with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, an ethnical, a racial or a religious group, commits any of the following acts:

(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.