They're abducting children now?
Feb. 15th, 2023 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nairiporterRussia deports thousands of Ukrainian children. Investigators say that's a war crime
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/14/1156500561/russia-ukraine-children-deportation-possible-war-crime-report
Russia’s open effort to adopt Ukrainian children and bring them up as Russian is already well underway. Russia claims these kids don't have parents or guardians to look after them, or that they can't be reached. But a joint research by European investigating journalist has found otherwise: in fact Russian officials have deported Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held territories without consent, lied to them that they weren't wanted by their parents, used them for propaganda, and given them Russian families and citizenship.
Of course, as could be expected Russia portrays its adoption of Ukrainian children as an act of generosity that gives new homes and medical resources to helpless minors. Russian state media shows local officials hugging and kissing them and handing them Russian passports. It's all birds and roses.
Then why didn't they ask the families of the children for consent to have them adopted in Russia? Instead, they told families the children were going to "summer camp" and would be returned. That was a lie. Putin literally kidnapped these children as another tactic in his war against Ukrainians.
This sounds dangerously close to what the Nazis did to Polish children during World War II. It was worse then because the children taken were considered to be exceptions to the Nazis' views on race and were completely disconnected from their homeland and lied to about their origin. Of course, those children were never returned. But this is close enough to touch a nerve.
This is evil, whichever way you look at it.
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/14/1156500561/russia-ukraine-children-deportation-possible-war-crime-report
Russia’s open effort to adopt Ukrainian children and bring them up as Russian is already well underway. Russia claims these kids don't have parents or guardians to look after them, or that they can't be reached. But a joint research by European investigating journalist has found otherwise: in fact Russian officials have deported Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held territories without consent, lied to them that they weren't wanted by their parents, used them for propaganda, and given them Russian families and citizenship.
Of course, as could be expected Russia portrays its adoption of Ukrainian children as an act of generosity that gives new homes and medical resources to helpless minors. Russian state media shows local officials hugging and kissing them and handing them Russian passports. It's all birds and roses.
Then why didn't they ask the families of the children for consent to have them adopted in Russia? Instead, they told families the children were going to "summer camp" and would be returned. That was a lie. Putin literally kidnapped these children as another tactic in his war against Ukrainians.
This sounds dangerously close to what the Nazis did to Polish children during World War II. It was worse then because the children taken were considered to be exceptions to the Nazis' views on race and were completely disconnected from their homeland and lied to about their origin. Of course, those children were never returned. But this is close enough to touch a nerve.
This is evil, whichever way you look at it.
