Posted on 02/14/2023 10:44:46 PM PST by familyop
U.S. researchers say that Russia has relocated thousands of Ukrainian children to a network of sites in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine and in Russia whose main goal is to "reeducate" the children to make them pro-Russian.
The researchers said in a report published on February 14 that they had identified 43 camps and other facilities where at least 6,000 Ukrainian children have been held.
"The primary purpose of the camp facilities we've identified appears to be political reeducation," Nathaniel Raymond, one of the researchers, said in a briefing to reporters.
The report also provides evidence of the Russian government's efforts to sever communication between the children and their relatives in Ukraine and to prevent the children's return to Ukraine. Some of the camps are thousands of kilometers away from the children's homes.
The children included orphans and others who were in the care of Ukrainian state institutions before Russia launched its full-scale invasion nearly a year ago. They also included children with parents or clear familial guardianship and children whose custody was unclear or uncertain due to the war.
The report says some of the children taken from Ukraine were placed for adoption by Russian families or moved into foster care in Russia.
The report was produced by the Yale University School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab as part of a State Department-backed project that has examined human rights violations and war crimes allegedly committed by Russia.
"The fact that these are transfers and deportations of children is unconscionable by any standard," the State Department said in a news release.
The State Department said the unlawful transfer and deportation of protected persons was a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention on the protection of civilians and constitutes a war crime.
It demanded that Russia immediately halt forced transfers and deportations and return the children to their families or legal guardians. It also demanded that Russia provide registration lists of relocated and deported children and grant access for outside independent observers to the facilities.
The youngest child identified in the Russian program was just 4 months old, and some camps gave military training to children as young as 14, Raymond said. Researchers did not find evidence that those children were deployed in combat, he added.
Moscow has denied intentionally targeting civilians and has pushed back against previous claims that it had forcibly moved Ukrainians.
Never in my life I witnessed such an intensive propaganda campaign.
One good outcome of this war is that the media credibility is going to be destroyed forever once it is concluded.
I’ll argue that some media companies are gaining credibility in the USA and our allies with their reporting on the Ukraine war. Granted, while being a component of the evil western left, they don’t want to be ruled and enslaved by the barbarous, sadistic despots of Russia, either.
Putin, meanwhile, has solidly made Russia a global pariah for the foreseeable future. Russia has already lost in the most important way.
Most schools in the U.S. are re-education camps.
Woke vs Communism
Deserves repeating!
For the next 50 years, whenever there's an international conference, trade meeting, summit of Heads of State, or the like, Russia will be about as welcome there as Judd Fry at the Box Social.
Good job screwin' it up, Putin!
Regards,
>> Russia has already lost in the most important way.
Not really. There is certainly the reality of the loss of innocence, but this battle of diverging moralities is far from over.
A central hub to capture, analyze, and make widely available evidence of Russia-perpetrated war crimes and other atrocities in Ukraine.
Sounds like an unbiased source of information.
/sarc
Send the children here to America where we can surgically remove their sex organs! God bless America!
It was pretty obvious from the beginning of the ukraine “war” cough cough cough, that we are being fed 100% pure propaganda.
I honestly don’t give one hoot about the Ukraine situation (for whatever is actually going on) and I just skim the headlines. I simply don’t believe a word of it. It’s just not worth reading.
It’s simply pure magic-mushroom propaganda we are being fed.
Woke vs. Communism will be a fun battle.
the REAL fun battle is when Mr. & Mr. Woke decide to meet Mr. Islam one day.
Oh, it’s going to be a beautiful, bloody mess!
(the problem is that people like us suffer from both sides in the meantime)
Once the U.S. stops dragging out the inevitable Ukrainian defeat, European trade with Russia will return to normal.
In Russia, at least young girls can use a restroom reserved for their biological sex.
Russians still seem to know the difference between men and women as God created them.
Russian medical doctors are not happily cutting off the breasts of girls and castrating boys in demonic acts of pure evil now common in the USA.
Many American families are flatly rejecting the poisonous reality of American public education of their children and fleeing the wickedness of it for private schools or home schooling. Reading and math proficiency is literally non-existent in public schools in many American cities. We are producing many children who will have no choice but to resort to crime to survive as adults. They are ill-equipped to function as responsible adults. They cannot even read or complete an employment application.
Our USA can no longer claim the high moral ground against Russia for these and many other reasons.
No one seems to have learned a thing after 2 years of Covid propaganda.
“Re-education in “camps” in Russian occupied areas = Kids go to school in Mariupol sans. western NGO supplied rainbow flags and LGBT books.
“American researchers” = State department warmongers installed at Yale
The US department of education rubs its hands together in envy.
Ukraine is in it’s death throes and the propaganda always ramps up when when it appears they are losing.
Isn’t that what the democrats wanted to do with us regarding covid and even our support for Trump? Yep, it sure is.
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