What is Genocide?

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:

(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.

 As used in this section:

      (a) “Genocide” means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group and includes, without limitation, genocides and other acts of mass atrocities identified by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:

             (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; and

             (5) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.