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• Loco_Mex@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Russia is, in fact, enacting genocide in Ukraine.

  What Russia is doing:

  Tens of thousands of children are being abducted, stripped of their identity, and taught to hate their homeland
  thewalrus.ca/ukrainian-children/

  Definition of Genocide:

  Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
  www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition

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  • Riverside@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The source for the tens of thousands of Ukrainian children being abducted is, unsurprisingly, the Ukrainian government. The Russian government makes claims about Ethnic Russians being cleansed in Donbas and I don’t take those accusations as true either, until confirmed by independent journalistic reports. You’d do well to do a more critical analysis of wartime propaganda by countries involved in wars.

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    • Loco_Mex@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The ICC has an arrest warrant on Putin for these abductions.

      Putin has used a presidential decree to streamline the process of Ukrainian children being made Russian.

      Here’s your Independent Journalistic Report:

      “It happens, for example, that they go with their parents from the occupied territories through Russia to some third countries. Russians can detain parents, arrest, put them in prison, just take their child to their boarding school. Like, go where you wanted, but your child will stay with us. There are cases when Russians enter a house somewhere in the occupied territory, the child tells them that he lives with his mother, who just went to the store or for water, but they take this child, actually kidnap him, and he finds himself in Russia. I am not talking about the so-called evacuation of children’s boarding institutions from the occupied territories to Russia - this is a separate pain, "says Daria Kasyanova.

      But sure, keep telling the world it’s only Ukrainian propaganda.

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      • Riverside@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I cannot read in Ukrainian, but if the article contains independent verification of the tens of thousands figure, I’d love to see that section translated. What you quoted are anecdotal events, not evidence of tens of thousands, which is what I’m questioning. I’m not doubting some war crimes are being carried out, of course thats the case, I’m just saying they’re not nearly widespread enough to constitute genocide, as evidenced by the lack of support by essentially any country to such claims.

        You can leave the conversation if you want, but the figure of “tens of thousands” literally comes from the Ukrainian government. Per the Wikipedia article of the Abductions:

        Ukrainian authorities have verified the identities of over 19,000 abducted children, compiling and actively updating the data as part of an online platform: “Children of War”

        You are free to believe this figure if you want, but you’ll also be called on it when you use it to justify baseless claims of genocide which minimize what’s happening in Palestine.

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