Genocidal Act of Transferring Children from One Group to Another: The Cases of the Holodomor and the Ongoing Russian Genocide against the Ukrainian Nation
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genocide, forcible transfer of children as an act of genocide, indirect and direct acts of transferring children from one national group to anotherAbstract
This article deals with Russia’s forcible transfer of Ukrainian children to the Russian national group, and it identifies the elements of genocide in this act as defined by the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The author compares indirect acts of transferring Ukrainian children to other groups during the Holodomor-genocide in the first half of the XX century to the current transfer of Ukrainian children as direct acts of genocide in the ongoing Russian genocide against Ukrainians.
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