Russians Deporting Mariupol Residents To Camps In Russia.

[Crunchy Frog]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/ti1zzq/russians_are_deporting_mariupol_residents_to/

https://english.nv.ua/nation/invaders-have-been-forcibly-moving-mariupol-residents-to-filtration-camps-in-russia-50226480.html

Invading Russian troops have been deporting Ukrainians to Russia by force, Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko has said in a statement.

The invaders illegally removed people from the city's Left Bank district and shelters in the building of the city's sports club, where more than a thousand people (mostly women and children) had been hiding from the constant bombing.

It is known that the captured Mariupol residents were taken to filtration camps, where the invaders checked people's phones and documents.  After the inspection, some Mariupol residents were redirected to remote cities in Russia, the fate of others remains unknown.

More crimes against humanity.

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1. Kick for visibility

[AllyCat]

2. CNN also reporting this.

When can we pound Putin to glass? I know, I know.

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8. 👍

[Liberty Belle]

3. That's kidnapping - will the world stand for this?

I wonder who they are kidnapping--anyone at random or could they be targeting Jews or some other group?

I am hard-pressed to think of another war where civilian were removed from their country and taken to the invader's homeland -- except for World War II when Nazi Germany was doing this.

[Crunchy Frog]

7. They're targeting civilians, and it's a major violation of international law

to transfer populations in this manner.

They may be trying to depopulate Ukraine so they can repopulate with Russians.

This was an old Stalinist practice.

We need to make the sanctions even more severe IMO. Really squeeze the hell out of them, and yes, make ordinary Russians really suffer.

[DemocraticPatriot]

30. That was also Hitler's plan for the western Soviet Union...

to depopulate it to provide the Germans with more "living space". He wrote about it in 'Mein Kamp' if memory serves correctly.

[Bluesaph]

4. I think he is doing it

To use them as hostages?

To indoctrinate the ones who they deem worthy to Pro-Russia philosophy.

The ones who don’t make the cut gets the rifle to their head.

[Igel]

12. A few possibilities.

One is to clear the territory. But even that was a side benefit.

When you have a "tribe" that's wedded to the land and fights as a unit, you dissolve the unit. Remove it from the land. They have less to fight for, and they're distributed. The Circassians were split up from the Caucasus by the Ottomans for this reason. Stalin did it, but he learned it from history--the Horde and the Ottomans did precisely the same thing.

Stalin moved the Tatars, not to relocate Russians in their place (even if that happened) but for the same reason FDR put West Coast) but not East Coast Japanese(-Americans) in camps. Get unreliable elements away from the front line. The Turks did something similar with Kurds and Syriac Xians.


In this case they also might be intending to use them as a kind of hostage in negotiations later.

It's also possible that Putin's going full-tilt abusive big brother. "I can't let the Russians stay. They'd be assimilated, and that's genocide! So we'll force them to stay Russian to preserve their cultural-ethnic purity." Remember--genocide of Russophones is one of the reasons given for this "special operation".

But I wouldn't rule out that he just wants a photo op. "Look at the grateful people. Yes, that's the Ukrainian hand gesture for 'we're #1!'" Or justification for the numbers--all the evacuees from Khar'kov, Mariupol have wanted (or at least 99% of them) to go back to that muthuh, Russia. At some point you need to have actual people to justify the 10s of thousands of those personally saved by their messiah Putin.

[AllyCat]

15. Hell the Americans did it to the First Nations.

[lindysalsagal]

20. Ok, yes, but not in the 21st century.

[GP6971]

5. K & R.

[Wingus Dingus]

6. What century is this?

[Crunchy Frog]

9. This century is really shaping up to massively suck.

I worry that we're witnessing the start of a full blown genocide.

[Wingus Dingus]

10. Yes. They'll either be jailed, "converted" or killed?

This is so crazy. How do they think this will work, in the modern age?

[BlueIdaho]

11. How much more of this fascist BS are we supposed to tolerate?

Those war criminals must be held accountable for their actions. 😡

[keithbvadu2]

13. Putin taking lessons from China and the Uyghurs?

Putin taking lessons from China and the Uyghurs?

[Crunchy Frog]

14. Following the footsteps of Stalin.

[PatSeg]

16. My god, what a nightmare

This is chilling.

[chia]

17. Horrifying. No words...

[pbmus]

18. And starving them..

Link to tweet

[Crunchy Frog]

19. It's starting to look like genocide.

[lindysalsagal]

21. The UN has to get involved somehow. I don't know enough to know exactly what, but

he'll just keep stealing people until he's stopped.

[AllyCat]

22. Guardian has it now too.

This is horrible. This is war crimes. We MUST do everything.

[vercetti2021]

23. How do we rescue them?

Do we storm Russia like we did with Normandy?

[IronLionZion]

24. Forcibly relocate people to camps to defeat Nazism

[lees1975]

25. Mariupol is a majority Russian-speaking city close to the Donbas

so they must think having freedom-loving people that close to Russian occupied territory is a problem for them. That's what this war is about, that Ukraine enjoys liberty and Russians don't and Putin is afraid that will spread.

[turbinetree]

26. And so China says that this is NATO"S fault right......

[BigmanPigman]

27. Is it time for NATO to step in yet?

[flamingdem]

28. Possible disinformation

Awaiting confirmation. Putin might want a US reaction, he's after some kind of confrontation.

[roamer65]

29. They are witnesses to war crimes.

Putler is trying to eliminate the witnesses.

[Duppers]

31. 😡 This SCREAMS they need HELP!!

NOW!!