Wald Definition by the United Nations in the 1948 Genocide Convention. 'Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, in whole or in part. Under international law, the crime encompasses several actions committed with the intent to destroy a group: Killing members of the group. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group. Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the group's physical destruction. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group'.
