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Topic:
Crimes Against Humanity
Country:
Russia
Issue:
Escalation
Article ID:
82
Title:
Ukrainians are being forcibly deported to Russian 'filtration camps'
Author:
Michela Moscufo and Ines de la Cuetara
Date:
July 18, 2022
Source:
ABC News
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The U.S. Department of State estimates that between 900,000 and 1.6 million Ukrainian citizens, including 260,000 children, have been “interrogated, detained, and forcibly deported” to Russia, adding that “the unlawful transfer and deportation of protected persons is a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention on the protection of civilians and is a war crime.” There are at least 18 “filtration camps” that have been set-up along the Russia-Ukraine border, according to Michael Carpenter, the U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe... According to a statement released on Wednesday by the U.S. Department of State, “evidence is mounting that Russian authorities are also reportedly detaining or disappearing thousands of Ukrainian civilians who do not pass ‘filtration.’” "There are very strong grounds to believe that those individuals detained by them experience ill treatment and even torture," said Lokshina."The woman who was sitting next to me in the filtration camp, her husband had been gone for two weeks. He was taken away for filtration and not returned. There were at least 10 women I spoke with who had similar stories,” said Mkrtchian.
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