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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17887604
"Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered. But never before have I watched as soldiers enticed children like mice into a trap and murdered them for sport."
- Christopher Hedges American journalist on assignment in Gaza
Russia isn't trying to exterminate all children in Ukraine.
During the Russo-Ukrainian War,[3] Russia has forcibly transferred almost 20 thousand Ukrainian children to areas under its control, assigned them Russian citizenship, forcibly adopted them into Russian families, and created obstacles for their reunification with their parents and homeland.[7][8]The United Nations has stated that these deportations constitute war crimes.[8][9] The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for President of Russia Vladimir Putin[10](who has explicitly supported the forced adoptions, including by enacting legislation to facilitate them)[1]and Children's Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova for their alleged involvement.[10] According to international law, including the 1948 Genocide Convention, such acts constitute genocide if done with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a nation or ethnic group.[11][a]
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We were talking about children who have died; my point is that Russia isn't trying to kill them all.
Yes, Russiafication is genocidal. Israel doesn't do anything like that. They just butcher and slaughter children instead.
That’s still not a great thing to be defending.
I didn't defend anything, I pointed out why it's wrong to derail a thread about Israel to make it about Russia.
Can we not be concerned about more than one thing at a time?
I know I can.
You quite obviously can't, or you would be able to talk about the topic of Gazan children as well.
I think we should keep discussions on topic.
Israel is intentionally hunting and killing children (still, even after the ceasefire). Bringing up Russia is a derail, because they don't actually do that.
You can interact with Lemmy the way you feel fit as can I.
I can pay attention to more then one thing at once.
And I can call it out as a false equivalency, which is what I did. One is actually worse.
They’re both as bad and bringing it to attention shouldn’t be controversial.
Killing children is worse than not killing them.
Russia has killed plenty of Ukrainian children.
Russia doesn't intentionally target children, wereas Israel demonstrably does. One is actually worse than the other.
Since you’re determined to talk in circles and not listen to my contributions I might as well exit this conversation and let you continue by yourself.