SEXUAL VIOLENCE DURING ARMED CONFLICTS AS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY AND GENOCIDE

The article analyzes the crimes related to sexual violence and their results by the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia of 1993 and Rwanda of 1994. For the first time in the history of international justice, rape was recognized as a crime against humanity in the work of the tribunal of the former Yugoslavia. This allowed the tribunal, during the investigation of the terrorist attack in Rwanda, to claim that it was a genocidal rape due to the mass rape of women and girls by the Tutsi tribes. The most serious crimes were committed according to a plan prepared in advance by the highest authorities of the state. According to the results of the study, the scale of crimes confirmed that rape in Rwanda was a weapon to destroy groups of people on national grounds. The results of the study led to the fact that war criminals were accused of carrying out the planned genocide.

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