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(a) Killing members of the group;(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group requirements of life calculated to bring aboutits physical destruction in whole or in part;(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.’397. The ICJ established in its Decision of 26 February 2007 that genocide was committed inSrebrenica (see, legal consideration 278 et seq., together with the conclusion under legalconsideration 297):‘The Court concludes that the acts committed at Srebrenica falling within Article II (a)and (b) of the Convention were committed with the specific intent to destroy in part thegroup of the Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina as such; and accordingly that thesewere acts of genocide, committed by members of the VRS in and around Srebrenicafrom about 13 July 1995.’398. Article I of the Genocide Convention obliges the States Parties to prevent genocide:‘the Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace orin time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent andto punish.’399. The ICJ established in its Decision of 26 February 2007 that the prevention of genocidewithin the meaning of Article 1 of the Genocide Convention is an autonomous directobligation and not a preamble to the other obligations contained in the GenocideConvention. The ICJ passed judgment on the obligation within the meaning of Article Iof the Genocide Convention as follows (see, legal consideration 155 et seq., togetherwith the conclusion under legal consideration 165):© Van Diepen Van der Kroef Advocaten 2007www.vandiepen.com166