Article 149 Bis Federal Criminal Code

The person commits the crime of genocide who, with the purpose of destroying, totally or partially, one or more national groups or of an ethnic, racial or religious character, perpetrates by any means, crimes against the life of members of those, or imposes mass sterilization with the aim of impeding the reproduction of the group.

For such crime, twenty to forty years of prison and a fine of fifteen thousand to twenty thousand pesos shall be imposed.

If with the identical purpose attacks are carried out against the corporal integrity or the health of the members of said communities or minors under eighteen years of age are transferred from them to other groups, employing for this physical or moral violence, the sanction shall be five to twenty years of prison and a fine of two thousand to seven thousand pesos.

The same sanctions indicated in the preceding paragraph shall be applied to the person who, with equal purpose, intentionally submits the group to conditions of existence that must bring about its physical destruction, total or partial.

In the event that those responsible for said crimes were rulers, officials or public employees and they committed them in the exercise of their functions or on the occasion of them, in addition to the sanctions established in this article, the penalties indicated in Article 15 of the Law of Responsibilities of Officials and Employees of the Federation shall be applied to them.