GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER III
CRIME AND MISDEMEANOUR
Article 11. Crime
6. A grave crime is a premeditated crime punishable, under the criminal law, by a custodial sentence of the maximum duration in excess of ten years.
SPECIAL PART
CHAPTER XV
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND WAR CRIMES
Article 99. Genocide
A person who, seeking to physically destroy, in whole or in part, the persons belonging to any national, ethnic, racial, religious, social or political group, organises, is in charge of or participates in their killing , torturing , causing bodily harm to them, hindering their mental development , their deportation or otherwise inflicting on them the conditions of life bringing about the death of all or a part of them , restricts the birth of the persons belonging to those groups or forcibly transfers their children to other groups
shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of five up to twenty years or by life imprisonment.
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;