{"id":214961,"date":"2023-03-17T16:18:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T08:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=214961"},"modified":"2023-03-17T18:00:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T10:00:57","slug":"russia-ukraine-conflictdeportation-of-ukrainian-children-to-russia-is-war-crime-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=214961","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine conflict: Deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia is war crime \u2013 UN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.brudirect.com\/images\/news\/EUROPE0317.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>UNITED NATIONS, <strong>March 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; <\/strong>Russia&#8217;s forced deportation of Ukrainian children to areas under its control amounts to a war crime, UN investigators have said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UN Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine said there was evidence of the illegal transfer of hundreds of Ukrainian children to Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Commission&#8217;s report is categorical that Russia also committed other war crimes in Ukraine including attacks on hospitals, torture, rape and wilful killings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine government figures put the number of children forcibly taken to Russia at 16,221.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia has introduced policies such as the granting of Russian citizenship and the placement of children in foster families to &#8220;create a framework in which some of the children may end up remaining permanently&#8221; in Russia, the report notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the transfers were supposed to be temporary &#8220;most became prolonged&#8221;, with both parents and children facing &#8220;an array of obstacles in establishing contact&#8221;, UN investigators wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It quotes witnesses as saying that the smaller children transferred may have not been able to establish contact with their families and might, as a consequence, &#8220;lose contact with them indefinitely&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The forced deportations of Ukrainian children &#8220;violate international humanitarian law, and amount to a war crime&#8221;, concludes the report. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS, March 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Russia&#8217;s forced deportation of Ukrainian children to areas under its control amounts to a war crime, UN investigators have said. The UN Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine said there was evidence of the illegal transfer of hundreds of Ukrainian children to Russia. The Commission&#8217;s report is categorical that Russia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":214962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214961"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214970,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214961\/revisions\/214970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/214962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}