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The
Court
of
Appeal
and
the
Supreme
Court
considered
that
the
Genocide
Convention
list
of
protected
groups
was
not
intended
to
be
exhaustive
:
many
other
domestic
criminal
codes
had
adopted
broader
definitions
of
genocide
(
see
paragraphs
36
and
38
of
the
present
judgment
)
.
The
fact
that
certain
States
later
decided
to
criminalise
within
their
domestic
legislation
genocide
of
a
political
group
as
such
does
not
change
the
reality
that
the
text
of
the
Genocide
Convention
did
not
do
so
.
In
this
context
,
we
observe
that
one
of
the
most
recent
binding
international
treaties
which
refers
to
the
crime
of
genocide
–
the
1998
Rome
Statute
of
the
International
Criminal
Court
–
defines
it
as
a
crime
directed
at
the
destruction
,
in
whole
or
in
part
,
of
a
national
,
ethnical
,
racial
or
religious
group
,
without
mentioning
political
groups
(
see
paragraph
87
of
the
present
judgment
)
.
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