BOOK II: SPECIFIC PROVISIONS FOR EACH OFFENCE.
Article 135: Matters not governed by this book shall be covered by special laws.
TITLE 1: CRIMES AND OFFENSES AGAINST THE JUS COGENS, THE STATE AND
PUBLIC INTERESTS
CHAPTER 1: OFFENSES AGAINST THE JUS COGENS
Section 1: Crime of genocide
Article 136 : Any person who, with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical,
racial or religious group, commit any of the following acts shall be punished by life
imprisonment:
1° Killing members of the group;
2°Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
3°Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical
destruction in whole or in part;
4°Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
5°Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Section 2: Crimes against humanity
Article 137: Any person who, as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any
civilian population, with knowledge of the attack, commits any of the following acts shall be
punished by life imprisonment:
1° Murder;
2° Extermination;
3° Enslavement;
4° Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
5° Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules
of international law;
6°Torture;
7° Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any
other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
8°Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic,
cultural, religious, gender as defined in article 138 below, or other grounds that are universally
recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in
this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court;
9°Enforced disappearance of persons;
10°The crime of apartheid;
11°Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious
injury to body or to mental or physical health.
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