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Kyiv accuses Moscow of mass abduction of Ukrainian children
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Foreign ministry says Russia has transferred more than 1,000 children from Mariupol for illegal adoptions in Siberia
Kyiv has accused Moscow of having organised illegal mass adoptions of Ukrainian children after transferring them from occupied territories to Russia.
Since the beginning of the war, Kyiv has been accusing Moscow of “deporting” Ukrainians, saying Ukrainians from occupied territories have been forced to go to Russia rather than other regions of Ukraine.
“The Russian Federation continues to abduct children from the territory of Ukraine and arrange their illegal adoption by Russian citizens,” Ukraine’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
Filtration and forced deportation: Mariupol survivors on the lasting terrors of Russia’s assault
“More than 1,000 children from Mariupol,” a southern Ukrainian city occupied by Russian troops, “were illegally transferred to outsiders in Tyumen, Irkutsk, Kemerovo and Altai Krai” in Siberia, the statement read.
The foreign ministry said it had based its findings on information from local authorities in Krasnodar, a southern Russian city near Ukraine.
More than 300 Ukrainian children are “held in specialised institutions” in the Krasnodar region, according to the statement.
The ministry accused Russia of actions that “grossly violate the 1949 Geneva convention” that establishes rules for humanitarian treatments in wartime and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It called for “all Ukrainian children, who were illegally displaced to the territory of Russia, [to] be returned to their parents or legal guardians”.
Several families from Mariupol said they had been forced to go to Russia to flee the fighting.
Kyiv accuses Moscow of mass abduction of Ukrainian children
Foreign ministry says Russia has transferred more than 1,000 children from Mariupol for illegal adoptions in Siberiawww.theguardian.com
It's a very well known playbook... listen to the first 20 minutes of this intro for a very good example.accuse your enemy of doing what you are doing , right out of the fascist playbook
360 citations to primary sources. Folks can pan wikipedia all they like (and some topics become warzones for trolls, but they notably don't have citations), but when a wiki page is good, it's just a summary of a topic with a good list of citations to primary sources.Wikipedia - the 'editable' resource.
... Patrick Desbois, a French Catholic priest who has devoted much of his life to researching the Holocaust and more modern atrocities elsewhere, including in Guatemala, Syria and Iraq.
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News of atrocities committed by Russian soldiers soon emerged, and Desbois’ Paris-based Holocaust research organisation, Yahad-In Unum, began to shift focus to history in real time, deploying its well-honed skills to investigate possible war crimes under way.
“I have been active in Ukraine for 20 years and I know more people in Ukraine than France, so I reconnected with this network and we immediately began employing two people on the ground to track witnesses through social media,” Desbois told Al Jazeera.
In other parts of Eastern Europe, Yahad-In Unum continues its historical research and is focusing on the Nazis’ “forgotten victims” like the Roma. But in Ukraine, all that has been put on hold so they can help gather evidence for future prosecutions. So far, the group has collected testimonies from more than 100 individuals across Ukraine about possible massacres and abuses.
“The idea is to win in court and to prove that our slogan ‘never again’ should be louder than before the war,” said Maksym Rabinovych, head of the Babyn Yar Memorial Center, Yahad-In Unum’s partner in Ukraine.
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Sure, but it should be a free and uncoerced process. Not one done under duress by a foreign power.
This report is the first to address one of the more contentious and consequential questions of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: whether the war is genocidal in character. With fighting still ongoing, modern tools have made it vital that this question be examined and its truth made known.
With the word genocide so commonly used — and similarly disputed — allowing for a looseness of definition is unhelpful. A clear reckoning of the facts using the opportunities of modern methods of investigation together with legal analysis pursuant to applicable law is essential.
This is a project of the New Lines Institute and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, which assembled three teams of experts to assess the subject. This included a team of legal scholars and genocide experts, a second group of open-source intelligence investigators, and linguists who were able to make use of the extensive primary source record this war has already created — of communications intercepts and testimonials.
The New Lines Institute and Raoul Wallenberg Centre have done extensive work on the Rohingya and Uyghur genocides — including producing the first report to make a determination of genocide in Xinjiang applying the 1948 Genocide Convention.
This report reasonably concludes that Russia bears State responsibility for breaches of Article II and Article III (c) of the Genocide Convention to which it is bound. The report also concludes that there exists undoubtedly a very serious risk of genocide, triggering States’ duty to prevent under Article I of the Genocide Convention.
This is the first report of its kind, but not the final word on the subject. We hope more will follow.
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Russian troops forced to beat a hasty retreat in Ukraine are leaving behind evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity. As this body of evidence grows, officials and experts are becoming increasingly convinced that Russia is committing genocide against the Ukrainian people.
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Ibrahim and Williamson said the incitement to commit genocide is itself a crime. According to Williamson, the rhetoric from Russian President Vladimir Putin, Moscow, and Russian state media “clearly indicates an intent to destroy Ukraine as a nation, to not even recognize Ukraine as a nation, to not recognize the Ukrainian people.” Putin has described Ukraine as an artificial creation.
“This is the rhetoric laying the foundations of incitement to genocide,” said Ibrahim. “And we have seen this translated into action.”
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360 citations to primary sources. Folks can pan wikipedia all they like (and some topics become warzones for trolls, but they notably don't have citations), but when a wiki page is good, it's just a summary of a topic with a good list of citations to primary sources.
their 'sources' are often (communist) curated screeds written by (nyc media and dc criminals) that have less than zero credibility on many issuesThen use a primary source. Wikipedia has been proven to be very biased in any political area. It's only useful for mundane facts like the population of Djibouti.
lulz. in a zinc coffin perhaps.... I suppose they could all go home?
i feel your pain. maybe i can lighten your loadFellas, I don't know what to tell you. If you are really outraged by war crimes, there is ample evidence that Russia has been committing them. Much as I enjoy championing facts, logic and intellectual honesty, there are only so many hours in the day and I don't have time to address all the ... misrepresented facts and unsupported claims that get posted here in the forum, much less curate 360 primary sources on the subject of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. It's unreasonable of you to ask that of me.
I agree.it is up to the reader to do his own digging, if so inclined
... Russia is humanity's hope for survival.
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