INDIRECT GENOCIDE AND THE NEED TO PREVENT IT WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE SPECIAL UN CONVENTION

Abstract

It is common knowledge that genocide is a criminal act committed against a group on racial, national, ethnic or religious grounds with the aim of their collective destruction. In this regard, the relevance of the problem under study is due to the need to analyze new forms of genocide that are not directly provided for in the normative content of the special UN Convention of 1948 and the insufficient development of theoretical and legal aspects of the commission of Indirect Genocide in international practice. The purpose of the study is to form and present a fairly complete and generalized situation related to legally unregulated ways of committing Indirect Genocide as deliberate inaction on any demographic groups by changing natural conditions, cultural and historical environment, as well as biological and economic factors of intervention. The leading methods of studying the problem under consideration are analysis, modeling and concretization, which make it possible to qualify Indirect Genocide as an action preceding the commission of direct Genocide. One of the main results of the study is the provision according to which the current UN Convention of 1948 should be interpreted not so much in the framework of the criminal legal assessment of indirect forms of Genocide, but in the general context of the obligations of states parties. The practical significance of the article is that it does not focus on the need to adapt the norms of the Convention to modern conditions and practices of Genocide and is focused on the development of new scientific, methodological and legal support for the safety of protected demographic groups.