As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings unless the context shall clearly indicate another or different meaning or intent: (1) “Genocide” means any act committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in substantial part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group such as: (i) Killing members of that group; (ii) Causing serious bodily injury to members of that group; (iii) Causing permanent impairment of the mental faculties of members of the group through drugs, torture, or similar techniques; (iv) Subjecting the group to conditions of life that are intended to cause the physical destruction of the group in whole or in part; (v) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; or (vi) Forcibly transferring or attempting to transfer children of the group to another group, as defined by the Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 1987 (18 U.S.C. § 1091). (2) “Holocaust” means the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million (6,000,000) Jews and five million (5,000,000) other individuals by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
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