Criminal Code (Cap. 9)

Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 54B

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54B. (1) Genocide is committed where any of the following acts is 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. (2) Whosoever directly and public l y i n c i t e s o t h e r s t o c o m m i t genocide shall be guilty of a crime. CRIMINAL CODE [CAP. 9. 39 Crimes against humanity. Added by: XXIV .2002.13.

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