Putin's partial mobilization: activist speaks of "ethnic genocide" in Russia
Created: 10/26/2022 2:03 p.m
By: Tim Vincent Dicke
Putin prefers to send ethnic minorities to the Ukraine war.
An activist reports on frightening situations in Russia.
Moscow – In order not to lose the support of the Russian majority society, Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin is sending a striking number of members of ethnic minorities to the Ukraine war.
An activist describes the approach in the huge empire as "genocide", as
reported
by fr.de.
They come from Chechnya, Dagestan, Buryatia and from the Far East in Russia: Ever since the Russian President announced partial mobilization to turn the tide in the war of aggression against Ukraine in his favor, the military has been pulling countless fighters from the more remote regions of the country country one.
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Protests then broke out in Dagestan, during which, according to the non-governmental organization OVD-Info, hundreds of people were arrested.
Russian media released videos of women arguing with police officers during the demonstration.
“Why are you taking our children?” one of them asked at the time.
It was heard from other regions that almost entire villages were mobilized.
Reports are coming from Ukraine about Russian fighters who grew up thousands of kilometers from the border with Ukraine - most of the time these people don't even know what they are doing in the country.
Viktoria Maladaeva, Vice-President of the “Free Buryatia” Foundation, criticizes Putin in clear words for the partial mobilization and the massive conscription of the minorities.
The foundation is based in the USA, was founded in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24 and is committed to autonomy for the Republic of Buryatia.
In Russia, propaganda for war and the military is omnipresent.
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"We know that Dagestan, the Republic of Tuva and the Republic of Buryatia, where minorities live, statistically have the highest number of fatalities," Maladaeva told Al Jazeera news channel.
The activist charged that a person from Buryatia was 7.8 times more likely to die in the Ukraine conflict than an ethnic Russian.
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“On the day of Putin's announcement, local authorities in Buryatia came to people's homes at night.
They got people out of their beds.
Some didn't even get a draft notice.
They were simply dragged onto buses and enlisted at military bases.
They took everyone away, even people with five children, several men from one family,” Maladaeva described the situation in the republic.
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The foundation representative sees Putin as an imperialist who doesn't give a damn about minorities.
“He propagates everything that is Russian.
In Russia, if you're not Russian, you're a second-class citizen," she told Al Jazeera.
She accuses the Russian government of crimes against humanity: “There are endangered ethnic groups in Dagestan.
Some are very small communities of around 13,000 people, and they were drafted anyway.
We see this as an ethnic genocide." (
tvd
)