886 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র VI). The Genocide Convention, Dec. 1948. Pakistan was a signatory to this Convention. a) Article 2: Genocide means "acts committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part, a national, ethnical racial or religious group such as by killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to the members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; much measures intended to prevent birth within the group forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. b) Article 3: Punishable acts; Genocide; conspiracy to commit genocide; direct and public incitement to commit genocide; attempt to commit genocide; and complicity in genocide. c) Article 4: "persons committing genocides or any of the other acts enumerated in Art. Ill shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials, or private individuals. VII) Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal. Crimes against humanity are considered to be "murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other in human acts committed against any civilian population before or during war". Gen Assembly adopted a resolution without dissent and reaffirmed the principles of international law recognized by the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and the judgment of the tribunal. Therefore crime against humanity is a crime under international law. GENEVA CONVENTION VIII) Art. 3 of the Geneva Convention of 1949. Pakistam ratified the conventions of 1949 and 1951. Pakistan ratified the Geneva civilian conventions with reservation to Art. 44 and 68 (2). There was no reservation to Article 3. Art. 3 is common to all the 4 Geneva Conventions which were adopted at the Diplomatic Conference at Geneva held from April 21 to August 12 1949. Article 3 reads: "In case of an armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting parties, each party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the followings: 1) persons taking no active part in hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed 'Horsde combat' by sleekness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse definition founded on race, color, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other criteria. To this end, the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above mentioned persons: (a) violence to life and persons in particular character of all in cruel treatment and torture; b) taking of hostages;
