Russia does not deny the evacuation of Ukrainian children, but the government claims it is part of a humanitarian project for war-traumatised orphans.
Now, there are also allegations of genocide involving the forced transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia.in connection with the transfer of Ukrainian children for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian commissioner for children’s rights.
The primary purpose of most of these camps appears to consist of pro-Russia indoctrination and, in some instances, military training. Troublingly, Mr Putin’s “patriotic patronage campaign” is also strongly encouraging Russian families to adopt purported Ukrainian orphans. Article II of the Genocide Convention lists the forcible transfer of children of a group to another group as one of the acts which may amount to genocide if it is done with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.Ukrainian children would be protected under this legal definition as a national group.
Russia’s actions are comparable to the Nazis’ “Germanisation program” in the second world war, in which hundreds of Polish children were transferred to Germany and subsequently adopted by German families. The arrest warrants just issued by the International Criminal Court are the first related to alleged crimes committed during the Ukraine war.
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