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Convention on thePrevention and Punishmentof the Crime of GenocideAdopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948.Article 1The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crimeunder international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.Article 2In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole orin 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 destructionin whole or in part;• (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;• (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.Article 3The following acts shall be punishable:• (a) Genocide;• (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;• (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;• (d) Attempt to commit genocide;• (e) Complicity in genocide.Source: Unknown, "United Nations Convention on Genocide." 1994. Human Rights Web. 20 Mar 2007.Definition of Ethnic Cleansing:For our purposes, we will use the generally accepted definition of “ethnic cleansing”:• expulsion of an "undesirable" population from a given territory due to religious or ethnicdiscrimination, political, strategic or ideological considerations, or a combination ofthese.Source: Andrew Bell-Fialkoff, "A Brief History of Ethnic Cleansing", Foreign Affairs 72 (3): 110,Summer 1993. 20 March 2007.