genocide definition

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:

genocide means an act of genocide as defined in article 54B; ''crime against humanity'' means a crime against humanity as

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: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; or forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Examples of genocide in a sentence

• As basis for the Court’s jurisdiction, Croatia invokes article IX of the Genocide Convention, to which, it claims, both States are parties.

• On 2 July 1999, Croatia instituted proceedings before the Court against Serbia (then known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) with respect to a dispute concerning alleged violations of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide committed between 1991 and 1995.

• Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Croatia v.

• London: Routledge Studies in Genocide and Crimes against Humanity.

• Jorgensen, “State Responsibility and the 1948 Genocide Convention”, in The Reality of International Law: Essays in Honour of Ian Brownlie, 1999, pp.

More Definitions of genocide

genocide means an act or omission committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, an identifiable group of persons, as such, that at the time and in the place of its commission, constitutes genocide according to customary international law or conventional international law or by virtue of its being criminal according to the general principles of law recognized by the community of nations, whether or not it constitutes a contravention of the law in force at the time and in the place of its commission.

genocide means an act of genocide as defined in article 6,

genocide means an act of genocide as defined in article 6 of the ICC Statute;

genocide means an act or omission committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, an identifiable group of persons, as such, that, at the time and in the place of its commission, constitutes genocide according to customary international law or

genocide means an act of genocide as defined in article 54B;

genocide means any of the acts specified in Article 6;

genocide means any of the following acts committed