section_path: Crimes for which individuals can be prosecuted/Genocide
section_name: Genocide
paragraph_text: Genocide
  
  Article 6 defines the crime of genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.": article 6 There are five such acts which constitute crimes of genocide under article 6:: articles 6(a)–6(e)
  
  The definition of these crimes is identical to those contained within the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948.