REFERENCE: Point 8 - The Return Of The Displaced (Part II)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia

Since 2020, due to excess deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia's population has undergone its largest peacetime decline in recorded history. In 2020, the total fertility rate across Russia was estimated to be 1.5 children born per woman, which is below the replacement rate of 2.1 and about equal to the European average.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/13/ukraine-russia-forced-deportation-antony-blinken/

Russia has deported 900,000 to 1.6 million Ukrainian citizens from Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine in a systemic “filtration” operation, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Wednesday, in a loud condemnation of Moscow and affirmation of claims that Ukrainian officials have levied for weeks.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_filtration_camps_for_Ukrainians

According to a leaked Russian occupation plan, "filtration" was intended to serve as pacification and counter-insurgency strategy following Russian occupation of the entirety of Ukrainian territory. According to the occupation plans, large portions of the Ukrainian populations were to be rounded up during door-to-door sweeps and passed through "filtration" in order to compile comprehensive counter-intelligence files: "Filtration would be used to intimidate people, to determine whether they needed to be displaced into Russia, and to lay the groundwork for records to monitor and disrupt resistance networks."

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-borders-swamped-as-putins-draft-order-sparks-exodus-11664452064?mod=article_inline

In the week since President Vladimir Putin ordered the mobilization of some 300,000 conscripts, departing Russians have overwhelmed a chain of ordinarily sleepy border posts stretched across thousands of miles. The flow is mostly professional-class Russians fleeing their homeland to pursue new lives as refugees.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64985009

The UN Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine said there was evidence of the illegal transfer of hundreds of Ukrainian children to Russia ... The forced deportations of Ukrainian children "violate international humanitarian law, and amount to a war crime", concludes the report.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64992727

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin. The court alleges he is responsible for war crimes, and has focused its claims on the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia ... Russia's commissioner for children's rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, is also wanted by the ICC for the same crimes. In the past, she has spoken openly of efforts to indoctrinate Ukrainian children taken to Russia.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-charges-politician-over-alleged-deportation-of-orphans-as-young-as-one/ar-AA1dfwFN

Ukraine has charged a Russian politician and two suspected collaborators with war crimes over the alleged deportation of dozens of young orphans - some as young as one ... Most are alleged to have been taken on 21 October under the direction of the Russian suspect. Prosecutors shared a video said to show one suspect helping put the children on a bus marked with the pro-Russian "Z" symbol ... The three suspects' names are redacted in documents - and they are thought to be in Russia or Crimea - but the trial could be held without them present.

 

https://kyivindependent.com/explainer-what-we-know-about-russias-deportation-of-ukrainian-children/

Daria Kasianova, the national program development director at "SOS Children's Villages" charity, which cooperates with the Ministry for Reintegration of Occupied Territories to return deported children, says the National Information Bureau collects the data on deported children from several sources, including the police, social services, and relatives' reports ... These children get identified and added to the nationwide database of deported children, which now includes 19,000 children. The actual number, however, might be higher.

 

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/UKRAINE-CRISIS/ORPHANS/dwpkrxzwwvm/

Ukraine’s National Social Service (NSS), tasked with overseeing children’s rights, said it had done “everything possible to preserve the lives and health of children and prevent them from being left in the epicenter of hostilities.”

 

https://www.aei.org/foreign-and-defense-policy/europe-and-eurasia/russias-forced-deportations-of-ukrainian-orphans-highlights-its-imperial-agenda/

From my own perspective as an adoptee from Russia, I see how readily the Kremlin uses orphans as bargaining chips in political games, such as retaliating against the 2012 US Magnitsky Act human rights sanctions by banning all American adoptions of Russian orphans. Ukrainian orphans are no exception. My hope is that more voices will join me criticizing the Kremlin’s deportation project which is merely a vehicle for war and politics. Let’s keep demanding to know: When can Ukrainian children go home?

 

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