"To remember terrible examples": the political scientist Helena Ponomarev — about the prevention of a crime of genocide

On December 9, 1948 the United Nations General Assembly took the Convention on the prevention of a crime of genocide and punishment for it. According to experts, the prevention of the actions similar to mass destruction of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and a Holocaust was the purpose of adoption of this document. Entered the term "genocide" and developed the draft convention the lawyer of the Jewish origin Lemkin Raphael, 49 which relatives were killed by nazis. Provisions of the Convention already were several times put into practice, in particular, during the investigation of the crimes committed in Rwanda and Cambodia. Professor of MGIMO, doctor...