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Translation of the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment
of the Crime of Genocide into simplified (jaintizi) Chinese

Published in the ZHONGHUA RENMIN GONGHEGUO GUOWUYUAN GONGBAO (People's Republic of China State Gazette) at the time of ratification in April 1983





Convention
for the Prevention and Punishment
of the Crime of Genocide

Article II

In the present Convention, 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.


Article III

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.

Link here to the Official Chinese Text of the 1948 Genocide Convention

[Article X: The present Convention, of which the Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall bear the date of 9 December 1948.]

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