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Structural division: BOOK III › CHAPTER I
Article 269 — Genocide.
Revised Criminal Code (English)
Article text
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.
Article 6
Exception: Application of the More Favourable Law.