Genocide 

Genocide is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a racial, ethnic, national, or religious group, in whole or in part. The crime of Genocide is defined in international law in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. This term was first used in 1933 by Professor Raphael Lemkin at a conference in Madrid. It was officially recorded in writing in 1944. After the end of World War II and the establishment of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), this Convention was adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 9, 1948. The Convention entered into force on January 12, 1951. The Genocide Convention has been ratified or acceded to by 153 States by 2022, and 41 other United Nations Member States have yet to do so. Over 80 countries have provisions for the punishment of Genocide in domestic criminal law. Article II of the Genocide Convention was included in Article 6 of the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Article 2: In the present Convention, Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy a group 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 group members.
c)Deliberately imposing living conditions calculated to bring about the group's physical destruction, in whole or in part.
d)Imposing measures intended to prevent birth within the group.
e)Forcibly transfer the children of the group to another group.

Article 3: The following acts shall be punishable:
a)Genocide.
b)Conspiracy to commit Genocide.
c)Direct and public incitement to commit Genocide.
d)Attempt to commit Genocide.
e)Complicity in Genocide.