Forcible Removal of Children

Aggressors may carry out the forcible removal and mass transfer of children from the occupied group into the colonizer's cultural environment (boarding schools, adoption). Such actions may be classified as an act of genocide aimed solely at severing the bond between generations, forced assimilation, and the long-term demographic erasure of the colonized group.

ID: T0125
Sub-techniques:  No sub-techniques
Tactic: Persistence
People: Ukrainians
Version: 1.0
Created: 21 April 2026
Last Modified: 21 April 2026

Procedure Examples

ID Name Description
C0103 Full-Scale Invasion (from February 24, 2022)

Organization of the mass deportation and forcible transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia and Belarus for their subsequent cultural assimilation. For these crimes, the International Criminal Court officially issued an arrest warrant for V. Putin. Cultural figures of the Russian Federation have taken and continue to take part in the program of cultural assimilation of Ukrainian children[1]. The program of taking children away in many ways resembles the historical precedent of child abduction by Nazi Germany, above all in the territory of occupied Poland[2].

S0008 Government

Organization of the mass deportation and forcible transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia and Belarus for their subsequent cultural assimilation. For these crimes, the International Criminal Court officially issued an arrest warrant for V. Putin. Cultural figures of the Russian Federation have taken and continue to take part in the program of cultural assimilation of Ukrainian children[1]. The program of taking children away in many ways resembles the historical precedent of child abduction by Nazi Germany, above all in the territory of occupied Poland[2].

G0011 Russian Federation

Organization of the mass deportation and forcible transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia and Belarus for their subsequent cultural assimilation. For these crimes, the International Criminal Court officially issued an arrest warrant for V. Putin. Cultural figures of the Russian Federation have taken and continue to take part in the program of cultural assimilation of Ukrainian children[1]. The program of taking children away in many ways resembles the historical precedent of child abduction by Nazi Germany, above all in the territory of occupied Poland[2].

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