Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko may be tried by the International Criminal Court, along with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, on charges of “illegal deportation” of Ukrainian children, which is considered a war crime.
Last March, The Hague Tribunal issued an arrest warrant for the Russian President, because he “is liable for war crimes of the illegal deportation of the population (children) and the illegal transfer of the population (children) from the occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia”. A second arrest warrant was also issued for Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, for crimes allegedly committed in occupied Ukrainian territory since at least February 24, 2022.
“20,000 Ukrainian children were abducted and held in Russian concentration camps”
Now the same fate can befall Putin’s Belarusian ally. According to the newspaper’s report TelegramLukashenko has allegedly deported about 2,150 six-year-old Ukrainian children to at least four camps in Belarus since September 2022. But the fear is that Minsk may deport a total of 3,000 Ukrainian children by the autumn of this year. Some allegedly received military training.
The Ukrainian children deported to Belarus were to come from Rostov-on-Don, a Russian city two hours from the Ukrainian border, where Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin had recently launched his armed rebellion. From there they are transported by train to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where they are “brainwashed” by bus to various facilities. From Russian brainwashing (with penalties for disobedience) to weapons training: These are the human rights violations that Ukrainian children are subjected to.
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Evidence linking these crimes with Lukashenko and other Belarusian officials was submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) by Belarusian opposition groups whose documents the British newspaper saw. blame aIt came weeks after Lukashenko, described as Europe’s last dictator, struck a deal with the Russian president. To house the Wagner militia units Leading an uprising against the Kremlin.
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