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The abduction of Ukrainian children by Russia is a genocidal crime.
Russia, the successor to the Soviet Union, signed up for the Genocide Convention. However, Putin has been indifferent to international laws or norms of any kind in his bid to eliminate Ukraine’s democracy and its people. He and other Russian officials involved in genocidal crimes against children should be held accountable.
On Dec. 24, 2018, Robyn Dixon and Natalia Abbakumova of the Post reported on a Russian scheme to send Ukrainian children to far-flung cities within the country. According to President Vladimir Putin’s decree in May, Russian citizens may adopt Ukrainian children more readily. Russian children’s rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova is ‘vigorously pursuing’ this policy, which involves eradicating Ukrainian identities and teaching them to love Russia, as reported by Lvova-Belova and the journalists. Lvova-Belova says they initially denounced Putin when they arrived in Russia, but then they ‘fall in love with Russia.’ Kremlin has been extensively publicizing the removals, including photos and videos on its website and state TV.
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It appears that a violation of the convention has occurred, which prohibits destroying an ethnic, racial, national, or religious group. The convention also prohibits moving children away from their group to another one. According to international law experts, the genocide convention also prohibits destroying a group’s culture, language, and religion, including that of children. The Lvova-Belova and Putin revelations about assimilating Ukrainian children into Russia and eradicating their culture prove that they were trying to commit genocide as defined by the convention.
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The genocide treaty was signed after Nazi crimes, such as Heinrich Himmler’s scheme to steal Polish children and place them in German orphanages or with German families to be raised as Germans, were committed. The first convictions were for child abduction at the Nuremberg war crimes trials. It is no defense for a kidnapper to claim that he treated his victim well, said Prosecutor Harold Neely, because these innocent children were abducted to be brainwashed with Nazi ideology and turned into ‘good’ Germans. This makes the offense even more severe.
Despite being a signatory to the convention on genocide, Russia’s treatment of Ukraine as an enemy and its people as a threat has been brutal. For example, Vladimir Putin and his cohorts have been involved in genocidal crimes against infants. International laws and norms should be enforced to hold them accountable.
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