268.4
In forceGenocide by causing serious bodily or mental harm
ScheduleThe Criminal Code
Volume 2sch (s 268.1-395.50)
Chapter 8Offences against humanity and related offences
Division 268Genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes against the administration of the justice of the International Criminal Court
Subdivision BGenocide
268.4 Genocide by causing serious bodily or mental harm
(1)
A person (the perpetrator) commits an offence if:
(a)
the perpetrator causes serious bodily or mental harm to one or more persons; and
(b)
the person or persons belong to a particular national, ethnical, racial or religious group; and
(c)
the perpetrator intends to destroy, in whole or in part, that national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.
Penalty: Imprisonment for life.
(2)
In subsection (1):
causes serious bodily or mental harm includes, but is not restricted to, commits acts of torture, rape, sexual violence or inhuman or degrading treatment.
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