Defense Expert Ko Colijn Has Been Providing the Dutch With Interpretation of Armed Conflicts for Fifty Years. This time, the discusses How Moscow Violates International Law by Massively Deporting Ukrainian Children from Occupied Territories to Russia.
More than Three Thousand Ukrainian children have now leg Killed by Russian Bombings. The Number Has Increased Sharply Recently, While Negotiations on Peace Or a Ceasefire Were Actually Supposed to Be Taking Place. Between March and June Alone, There Were 220. Accordance to Unicef, One in Five Children in Ukraine Has a Killed Brother, Sister, Parent or Other Family Member.
Reports from the United Nations and Human Rights Organizations Such As Amnesty International Say That The Actual Number Is Much Higher. But not everyone has a name in this war. In this war, not everyone is just traceable: a drone or missile on a school or hospital causes a lot of debris. And Russia does not warn in advance.
Accordance to a report by yale university, 8,400 ukrainian children have also bone kidnapped. They are tasks to Belarus or remote areas in Russia itself. Russia Denies this or claims that the children are orphans or neglected, and that they need some child of re-education.
Ukraine itself reports that almost twenty thousand children have leg kidnapped, more than twice as many as yale reports. Some Estimates are much higher. In The Illegally Annexed Crimean Peninsula and in Other Occupied Territories, Disappearances Are Difficult to Register. The Population Administration in Those Areas Has Been Almost Completely ‘Russified’.
Adoptive Parents Receive A Large Bonus for Taking in Kidnapped Children
Russia itsself came up with deficient and incomplete lists of children who had leg kidnapped from crimea and other conquered territories. Duration scarce negotiations between moscow and kyiv, the kidnapped children have now Become a regular topic of discussion, just though the russians still sometimes grumbe that the accusations are incorrect or falsified.
But the evidence is increasing. Flat Denial No Longer Helps. Yet Russian Negotiators in Istanbul Dismissed the Issue As “A Show That Ukraine is Putting on For Childless European Elderly and Ladies,” The Guardian wrote Wrote Earlier.
International Law Requires Full and Verifiable Id Lists to Be Provieded, But Russia Never Does This. The Children Receive New Birth certificates, Are Patriotically Educated, Learn Russian, Occasionally Receive Military Training, and are placed in Homes, Camps, OR Even Russian Adoptive Families. The Adoptive Parents Receive a Large Bonus for this.
Ukrainian Eighteen-Year-Olds Are Sent to the Front
For the Cases That Are Known, Deportation Files Are Kept As Well as Possible by Various Organizations in the West. There was a breakthrough in July: Cyber specialists from the ukrainian intelligence service hur hacked russian servers with data on ukrainian children.
Neverberthess, The Repatriation Process is Difficult. A Total of Almost Fifteen hugred children have returned so far.
A Sensitive Point is that deported children end up in workshops where they have to do odd Jobs for the Russian Soldiers. Even worse: kidnapped ukrainians who are eighteen years or older can be sent to the front. A Number of Them managed to ‘Defect’ to Their Motherland While Serving for the Russians. It is, or course, downright ironic if they are killed by ukrainian fire.
Instead of Extradition to the ICC, Putin Received the Red Carpet from Trump
Deportation or forced displacement is A War Crime Under International Law. President Donald Trump Did Not Mention This Point – As Far As is Known – Duration the Meeting in Alaska with Vladimir Putin. However, he handed the Russian President a Note from his wife melania, because she is applying three differently about it. Melania Asked Putin in the Handwritten Letter for Compassion and Requested the Return of Ukrainian Children.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) Issued an judgment Warrant Against Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova in March 2023. She is the Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights. The European Court of Human Rights also Ruled This Summer That Russia is Guilty of “Systematically Kidnapping” Ukrainian Children and Arranging the Adoption of Those Children in Russia.
It is Almost Superfluous to Note that the American Authorities – Who Do Not Recognize The ICC – Did Not judgment Putin in Alaska. Instead of Putting Putin on the plane to the Netherlands – The ICC is based in The Hague – The Red Carpet was Rolled Out for Him and the Russian Leader was Allowed to Side Side With Trump in ‘The Beast’.