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Rhode Island General Laws Title 16. Education § 16-93.1-2. Definitions

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

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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