‘Basically impossible to get them back’: Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children is a war crime, say experts

c/world · u/babysandpiper@sopuli.xyz · 537 points

As many as 35,000 Ukrainian children are still missing and thought to be held in Russia or Russian-occupied territories, according to an American team of experts, with families saying they are being forced to take desperate and risky measures to try to rescue them.

As Russian forces began their invasion in February 2022, children were abducted from care homes, from the battlefield after the death of their parents, or under coercion directly from their families.

Russia has rejected demands for the children to be returned, with an official accusing Ukraine of “staging a show on the topic of lost children” during ceasefire talks in Turkey this month.

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u/loonsun@sh.itjust.works · 18 points

What the fuck is wrong with you

u/Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone · 16 points

Multiple atrocities can be bad simultaneously.

u/jordanlund@lemmy.world · 7 points

Under the UN Genocide definition, both are the same:

https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition

"Article II

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

1) Killing members of the group;

2) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

3) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

4) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

5) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

It only takes ONE to be called a genocide. Israel has run the table, 5 for 5.

Russia? 4 for 5 in Ukraine. I can't think of instances of bullet point #4.

u/Gorilladrums@lemmy.world · 14 points

What part of this is propaganda? Russia is pretty open about their plans of kidnapping children

u/lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com · 3 points

Look, you can fck whatever you want, but you don't need to tell us, ok?

u/venusaur@lemmy.world · 3 points