Institute for Study of War: Russia conducts ethnic cleaning in Ukraine

Russia holds mass deportations of Ukrainians, including children, the Assembly of the American Institute for the Study of War says. The summary is quoted by BBC.

The summary states that the Russian authorities can conduct ethnic cleaning, not only exporting the Ukrainian population from the seized territories, but also in populating them with Russian citizens. ISW quotes the words of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullina, who stated on October 14 that Ukrainian children from the Kherson region remain in Russia.

Given the fact that the Russian authorities openly recognized the transfer of children from the occupied regions of Ukraine for adoption to Russian families, this may be a violation of the Convention to prevent the crime of genocide and punishment for it. Article II of the Convention, which contains the determination of the genocide, has a paragraph “violent transfer of children from one human group to another.”

The summary notes that ethnic cleaning, according to international legislation, is not a crime, but appears in the documents of the UN experts Commission on violations of humanitarian law in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.

ISW quotes these documents that states that ethnic cleaning is considered to be “giving a certain territory of ethnic homogeneity by force or intimidation in order to move certain persons and groups from this territory,” as well as “a purposeful policy of the ethnic or religious group to move Forcibly or intimidating the civilian population of another religious or ethnic group from a certain geographical field. ” By definition of the UN, ethnic cleaning can be carried out, among other things, by forcible eviction, the ICW report says.

The authors of the report believe that these definitions are information about the adoption of children, as well as reporting Ukrainian sources that it is planned to relocate people from Russia in Mariupol after recovery.