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
Riverside@reddthat.com 2 weeks 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.
Loco_Mex@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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:
But sure, keep telling the world it’s only Ukrainian propaganda.
Riverside@reddthat.com 2 weeks 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:
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.
nat1@ttrpg.network 2 weeks ago
So the person who believes Soviet documentation, will turn around and not believe Ukrainian documentation. How convenient this makes your genocide denial.
You even link to the site showing where you can browse the tens of thousands of missing Ukrainian children, and see the ones who have been returned. You can find testimonials from those returned children, but still you believe Russian war time propaganda over that.
The utter arrogance and hate to call these unjustified claims when they are backed up by evidence is astounding, but one should expect no less from someone so ideologically driven to manipulate and distort to fit their narrative.
CybranM@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
“The source for the crime is, unsurprisingly, the victim, the criminal is denying any wrongdoing” hmmm
Riverside@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Do you really think States under war have no reason to do atrocity propaganda? And you’re mischaracterizing what I said, I denied similar accusations made by Russia
CybranM@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
Who is invading who exactly?
“Burglar files counter-claim arguing that the owner of the house they’re stealing from is actually stealing from the burglar”