TY - JOUR AU - Oksana Voloshchuk AU - Victoriia Kolesnyk AU - Maxim Hetmantsev PY - 2021/05/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Human rights violations and genocide: Lessons of Rwanda JF - Amazonia Investiga JA - Amazonia Investiga VL - 10 IS - 40 SE - Articles DO - 10.34069/AI/2021.40.04.13 UR - https://amazoniainvestiga.info/index.php/amazonia/article/view/1605 AB - The purpose of the article is a comprehensive analysis of the Rwandan genocide through the prism of human rights violations. To achieve this goal, such methods as historical-legal, comparative, formal-dogmatic, logical-semantic and analysis were used. The article argues that the acts of genocide clearly provide for the guilty intent and use of a state mechanism that has all the required human and material resources to implement such a plan. This feature is one of the key in terms of revealing the essence of genocide, so it can differentiate these actions from the general murder under criminal law and shows, depending on the object of distribution - life, health of a certain group of people - and motives - national, ethnic , racial or religious intolerance, hostility - its increased social danger. It is concluded that the inclusion of such a feature as one of the basic to the universal definition is urgent. This will allow to more fully implement the principle of inevitability of punishment for all perpetrators, to recognize the state as a subject of responsibility and thus will contribute to a more effective implementation of the preventive function in the international arena. The combined efforts of all nations and peoples are needed to fight, combat and prevent the crime of genocide. The positive results would be achieved only by joint efforts by using a set of various means of combating genocide. ER -