Genocide

Slovakia

Criminal Code

PART TWO
SPECIAL PART

CHAPTER TWELVE
CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST PEACE, AGAINST HUMANITY, CRIMINAL OFFENCES OF TERRORISM, EXTREMISM AND WAR CRIMES

Title One
Criminal Offences against Peace and Humanity, Criminal Offences of Terrorism and Extremism

Section 418
Genocide

(1) Any person who, with the intention to destroy, in whole or in part, any national, ethnic, racial or religious group,

a) causes grievous bodily harm or death to a member of such group,
b) imposes a measure intended to prevent births within the group,
c) forcibly transfers children of the group to another group, or
d) deliberately inflicts on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part,
shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of fifteen to twenty years.

(2) The offender shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of twenty to twenty-five years or to life imprisonment if he commits the offence referred to in paragraph in the wartime or during an armed conflict.

(3) The offender shall be liable to life imprisonment if, through the commission of the offence referred to in paragraph 1, he causes death to several persons.

Rome Statute

Article 5 Crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court

1. The jurisdiction of the Court shall be limited to the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole. The Court has jurisdiction in accordance with this Statute with respect to the following crimes:

(a) The crime of genocide;