Genocide is the mass killing of a group of people as defined by Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, RACIAL or religious group, as such: 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 ; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."