In particular, the victims must form an ethnic, religious, racial, or national group, and the perpetrator must entertain “genocidal intent,” namely the will to destroy the group as such, in whole or in part. For example, one kills ten Kurds not because they are obnoxious or because the perpetrator has strong feelings against each of them taken individually, but only because they are Kurds; by killing those ten persons he intends to contribute to the destruction of the group as such.