Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group

Fiji

Fiji - Crimes decree 2009 EN

CHAPTER III — CRIMINAL OFFENCES

PART 12 — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER

Division 2 — Genocide

Genocide by causing serious bodily or mental harm

78.—(1) A person (the perpetrator) commits an indictable 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.

CHAPTER III — CRIMINAL OFFENCES

PART 12 — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER

Division 2 — Genocide

Genocide by causing serious bodily or mental harm

78.— (2) In sub-section (1)—
“causes serious bodily or mental harm” includes, but is not limited to, the committing of acts of torture, rape, sexual violence or inhuman or degrading treatment.

Rome Statute

Article 6 Genocide

For the purpose of this Statute, ‘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:

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;