Speech Brief
UK Government says Russian deportation of Ukrainian children is shameful
Key points
- Widespread, systematic deportation of Ukrainian children deemed a crime against humanity
- Findings of torture, coerced confessions, fabricated trials, forced recruitment, and unlawful deportations
TL;DR
- The Commission finds widespread and systematic deportation of Ukrainian children as a crime against humanity.
- Ukrainian language and culture stripped from schools in the Temporarily Occupied Territories and replaced with patriotic Russian curricula.
- Children are being recruited into Russian militarised youth movements and groomed to serve Russia’s war machine.
- Report finds torture, coerced confessions, fabricated trials, unlawful deportations, and foreign nationals from 17 countries tricked or coerced into fighting.
- Asks how the Council can increase monitoring and protection for Ukrainians living in the Temporarily Occupied Territories.
Original text
Mr Vice President, We had hoped not to be making another statement about Russian atrocities in Ukraine. Yet four years since this Commission was created, its work and conclusions are more important than ever. The new conclusions regarding the widespread and systematic deportation of Ukrainian children as a crime against humanity are shameful. This is a crime which demands the attention of the entire world given the d...
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