蓄意全部或局部消灭某一国族、族群、种族或宗教团体，犯有下列行为之一者：

• 杀害该团体的成员。
• 致使该团体的成员在身体上或精神上遭受严重伤害。
• 故意使该团体处于某种生活状况下，以毁灭其全部或局部的生命。
• 强制施行办法，意图防止该团体内成员生育。
• 强迫转移该团体之儿童至另一团体。
  
  https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

• The popular understanding of what constitutes genocide tends to be broader than the content of the norm under international law. Article II of the Genocide Convention contains a narrow definition of the crime of genocide, which includes two main elements:

• A mental element: the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such"; and
• A physical element, which includes the following five acts, enumerated exhaustively:
  • Killing members of the group
  • Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
  • Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
  • Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
  • Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
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  • 对什么构成种族灭绝的普遍理解往往比国际法规范的内容更广泛。 《灭绝种族罪公约》第二条载有对灭绝种族罪的狭义定义，其中包括两个主要要素：

    1.心理因素：“意图全部或部分摧毁一个民族、人种、种族或宗教团体本身”； 和
    2. 物理元素，包括以下五个行为，详尽列举：
    杀死小组成员
    对团体成员造成严重的身体或精神伤害
    故意对群体施加生活条件，以造成其全部或部分的物理破坏
    采取旨在防止群体内生育的措施
    强行将本组的孩子转移到另一个组