According to the 1948 "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide," genocide is:

"any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such:

a) killing members of the group;

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

c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."