P.R. Laws tit. 33, § 4933

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§ 4933. Genocide

Any of the acts set forth below constitute genocide when perpetrated with the intention of destroying a group as such, in whole or in part, whether it is national, ethnic, racial or religious:

(a) Murder of group members.

(b) Serious injury to the physical or mental health of the members of the group.

(c) Intentionally submitting the group to living conditions that shall entail their total or partial physical destruction.

(d) Measures intended to preventing births within the group.

(e) Transfer by force of children from one group to another.

Any person who commits genocide in the modality set forth in subsection (a) of this section shall incur a first degree felony. Any person who commits genocide in the modalities set forth in subsections (b), (c), (d) and (e) of this section shall incur a second degree felony.

History —June 18, 2004, No. 149, § 305, eff. May 1, 2005.