Newborns will not be given to stateless parents in occupied Luhansk region
6 May 2024 10:08
Starting from 6 May, hospitals in the occupied Luhansk region will not hand over newborns to their parents if at least one of them does not have Russian citizenship. This was announced by the head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Artem Lysogor, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that such actions contradict the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. In particular, we are talking about Article II of the Convention, which defines genocide as acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as such.
Paragraph d of this article includes “measures calculated to prevent childbearing within such a group”.
In addition, according to the ISW report, Russian occupation officials continue efforts to militarise and indoctrinate Ukrainian youth in occupied Ukraine. On 1 May, the occupied Luhansk region announced that it was developing a new textbook that would teach the modern history of the occupied Luhansk region in accordance with Russian educational standards. On 2 May, the occupying official of Zaporizhzhia region, Volodymyr Rogov, stated that 200 children had recently participated in military-patriotic games of the Russian military-patriotic youth organisations ‘Rukh Pervykh’ and ‘Yunarmiya’ in occupied Berdiansk and Melitopol.
