Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda | Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States, between 1 January 1994 and 31 December 1994

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda | International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States, between 1 January 1994 and 31 December 1994 | Rwanda Tribunal | ICTR [Abbr.]

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7. Is firmly convinced that there is no doubt that the atrocities perpetrated by ISIS/Daesh fall within the legal definition of genocide provided in Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide and Article 6 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; stresses that genocide amounts to any act committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group; underlines that the destruction of only part of a group on the basis of their nationality, ethnic group or religion also amounts to genocide; further emphasises that according to those legal pro ...[+++]visions acts of genocide do not necessarily need to cause the death of member of a group, as causing serious bodily or mental harm including inflicting trauma, torture, rape, sexual violence and mutilation, as well as the transfer of children, are also to be considered acts of genocide when committed as part of a policy to destroy a group’s existence; finally underlines that mere conspiracy, direct and public incitement, attempts to commit genocide and complicity with genocide are also tantamount to the crime of genocide even before mass murders have begun;

P. whereas the international legal definition of genocide, in accordance with Article II of the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, includes the words: ‘any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, 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; and (e) f ...[+++]orcibly transferring children of one group to another group’; whereas Article III of that Convention considers punishable not only genocide, but conspiracy to commit genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, and complicity in genocide’;

B. whereas the international legal definition of genocide, in accordance with Article II of the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, includes the words: ‘any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, 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; and (e) f ...[+++]orcibly transferring children of one group to another group’; whereas Article III of that Convention considers punishable not only genocide, but conspiracy to commit genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, and complicity in genocide;

I. whereas the international legal definition of genocide, according to Article II of the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, includes ‘any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, 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; and (e) Forcibly transfer ...[+++]ring children of the group to another group’; whereas Article III of that convention considers punishable not only genocide but also conspiracy to commit genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, and complicity in genocide;