Ukraine's human rights commissioner has called for more international pressure on Moscow to help Kyiv bring home thousands of Ukrainian children who Kyiv says have been illegally taken to Russia during the war.

Ukraine’s human rights commissioner has called for more international pressure on Moscow to help Kyiv bring home thousands of Ukrainian children who Kyiv says have been illegally taken to Russia during the war.

  • photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Of all the things Russia has done in Ukraine, I think this is one of the worst. They’re taking kids away from their families. To remove them from their communities at such a developmentally important age, then trafficking and brainwashing them who knows where is tantamount to genocide.

    • fiah@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      371·
      1 year ago

      it is not tantamount to genocide, it’s literally genocide

      In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” These five acts were: killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group