Russia’s forced deportation of Ukrainian children qualifies as “a war crime,” according to UN investigators. The UN says this is just one of many war crimes, including the execution of civilians and widespread accounts of torture.
“Russian authorities have committed unlawful transfers and deportations of civilians and of other protected persons within Ukraine or to the Russian Federation, respectively,” an independent commission of the United Nations Human Rights Council concluded in a new report. “This is a war crime.”Their finding was one of many that emerged from more than 600 interviews conducted across Ukraine, Estonia, and Georgia by a panel of independent investigators.
"Sexual violence amounting to torture and the threat of such against women and men have been important aspects of the torture exercised by Russian authorities,” the investigators wrote. “Rapes were committed at gunpoint, with extreme brutality and with acts of torture, such as beatings and strangling ... In one incident, the victim was pregnant and begged, in vain, the soldiers to spare her; she had a miscarriage a few days later.
The number of children affected by the resettlement program remains unclear to international investigators. Ukrainian officials say they have identified more than 16,000 specific children deported into Russia, and the investigators note that both governments at various times “have declared that hundreds of thousands of children have been transferred from Ukraine to the Russian Federation” since the beginning of the campaign to overthrow the Ukrainian government last year.
“The whole lead up to this war was the idea of the denial of the Ukrainian identity — saying that these people really were Russian,” Dr. Cynthia Buckley, an expert on social demography who specializes in the countries of the former Soviet Union, told the Washington Examiner in a recent interview. “There is an insidious ethnic component here that is quite frightening ...
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