The United Nations (International Tribunal) (Rwanda) Order 1996

Article 2Genocide

1.  The International Tribunal for Rwanda shall have the power to prosecute persons committing genocide as defined in paragraph 2 of this article or of committing any of the other acts enumerated in paragraph 3 of this article.

2.  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—

(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.

3.  The following acts shall be punishable—

(a)Genocide;

(b)Conspiracy to commit genocide;

(c)Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;

(d)Atttempt to commit genocide;

(e)Complicity in genocide.