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2 counts of war crimes: intentional directing attacks against civilians and pillaging. The ICC reserves the right to accuse Al-Bashir of genocide when the full evidence is presented to the Court
Excerpt from the Convention on the Prevention and
of Genocide
"Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means 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.