UN commission of inquiry says Russia’s abduction of Ukrainian children is a “war crime”

Russian authorities kidnap and arrest and “re-educate” Thousands of Ukrainian children have been caught up in the turmoil of war. At the end of the process, some of the children are granted Russian citizenship and placed in Russian foster families. These verbs, considered as a whole, constitute a “war crime”a UN commission of inquiry said on Thursday, March 16.

The Ukrainian authorities often describe the actions carried out by Russia as genocide, but the UN commission of inquiry, headed by Norwegian judge Erik Moss, did not come to the conclusion that Russia is carrying out a policy of genocide specifically in Ukraine. The legal meaning of the term. The UN commission found that deportation to Russia concerned children who lost their parents or temporarily lost contact with them during the hostilities. These are also children separated after the detention of one of their parents.

The criticism of the Russian authorities is that they refuse to take into account the opinion of the parents, relatives or guardians of these children. Russia also refrains from returning them to Ukraine or obstructs their return. “Parents or legal guardians and children face many obstacles in re-establishing contact, achieving family reunification and returning children to Ukraine.”says the UN report.

“national re-education”

A network of at least 40 camps across the country is used for “national re-education” These young victims, who had inculcated the memory of Russia and the death of the occidental monday, had the results of an enquête publiée at the five-year observatory of conflits, a group of chercheurs from the Yale university , in the United States of America. This study established that at least 6,000 Ukrainian minors had been living for weeks or even months in these camps, cut off from their parents.

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According to Ukrainian official statistics, as of March 13, 366 children are missing and 16,226 have been deported to Russia. The exact number of children cannot be accurately counted due to the ongoing hostilities and the temporary occupation of part of Ukrainian territory. The UN Special Commission for Ukraine has studied in detail the cases of 164 children, between the ages of 4 and 18, who were evacuated from the Donetsk, Kharkiv and Kherson regions, said Eric Moss at a press conference. Defender of Ukrainian rights Dmytro Lubinets, for his part, asserts V.I world The Russian authorities refuse to transfer the names of the deported Ukrainian children.

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