Chapter Three Fundamental Rights and Freedoms
Part One Human Rights
Article 28 Crimes Against Humanity
(1) Criminal liability of persons who commit crimes against humanity, so defined by international agreements ratified by Ethiopia and by other laws of Ethiopia, such as genocide, summary executions, forcible disappearances or torture shall not be barred by statute of limitation. Such offences may not be commuted by amnesty or pardon of the legislature or any other state organ.
(2) In the case of persons convicted of any crime stated in sub-article 1 of this article and sentenced with the death penalty, the Head of State may, without prejudice to the provisions here in above, commute the punishment to life imprisonment .
PART II
SPECIAL PART
BOOK III
CRIMES AGAINST THE STATE OR AGAINST NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL INTERESTS
TITLE II
CRIMES IN VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
CHAPTER I
FUNDAMENTAL CRIMES
Article 269.- Genocide.
Whoever, in time of war or in time of peace, with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a nation, nationality, ethnical, racial, national, colour, religious or political group, organizes, orders or engages in :
(a) killing, bodily harm or serious injury to the physical or mental health of members of the group, in any way whatsoever or causing them to disappear ; or
(b) measures to prevent the propagation or continued survival of its members or their progeny ; or
(c) the compulsory movement or dispersion of peoples or children or their placing under living conditions calculated to result in their death or disappearance ,
is punishable with rigorous imprisonment from five years to twenty- five years, or, in more serious cases, with life imprisonment or death .
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;