Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29)

Section 49A - Genocide

(1) A person who commits genocide is liable on conviction to life imprisonment.

(2) A person commits genocide where, with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, any national, ethnical, racial or religious group, that person

(a) kills members of the group;

(b) causes serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) deliberately inflicts on the group conditions of life calculated to bring its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) imposes measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) forcibly transfers children of the group to another group.

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