Cape Verde Legislative Decree 4/2003 of 18 November 2003 - PENAL CODE
VOLUME II - SPECIFIC PROVISIONS
TITLE IV - CRIMES AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
Article 268
(Genocide)
A penalty of 15 to 25 years' imprisonment shall be imposed as punishment upon anyone who, as part of the execution of a concerted plan, and with the intention of destroying, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, religious or other group identified on the basis of some arbitrary criterion, carries out any of the following acts with respect to members of that group:
(a) homicide or a serious offence against a person's physical or psychological integrity;
A los efectos del presente Estatuto, se entenderá por "genocidio" cualquiera de los actos mencionados a continuación, perpetrados con la intención de destruir total o parcialmente a un grupo nacional, étnico, racial o religioso como tal:
(c) Sometimiento intencional del grupo a condiciones de existencia que hayan de acarrear su destrucción física, total o parcial;