Human rights organization reports Russian children in Danish and other schools being bullied due to their nationality.
QUICK FACTS:
- Russian children in schools from Denmark to the United States have been harassed and bullied due to their nationality.
- Human Rights organization ‘Save the Children International’ reported that Russian children in Danish schools are suffering bullying because of their nationality.
- The group was approached by multiple parents who said their children have suffered similar types of harassment to what Asian populations faced near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- One teacher said that Russian children were being mobbed, taunted, and even branded “Russian spies.”
- A similar report out of Georgia indicated that Atlanta area schools have seen instances of Russian-speaking children being bullied and demeaned by their classmates, according to WSB-TV2.
- A social media coach from an Atlanta-area school said that this problem is cropping up all over the United States.
WHAT ELSE ‘SAVE THE CHILDREN’ SAID:
- “We can see that it is a big problem. They are afraid of being dropped off at school in the morning and claim to have a stomach ache,” senior adviser at Save the Children Jon Kristian Lange told Danish broadcaster TV2.
- Lange also highlighted the new trend of online abuse targeting Russians: “One of the things that needs to be focused on is this strange ridicule online of being Russian, such as dancing ugly like a Russian or memes where people look evil like a Russian,” he said.
- In Georgia, one woman described the plight of a 12-year-old bilingual girl: “They told her, you’re Russian, you will attack us. We will have a third world war, and you will be in charge of it. So you will kill us. So they were blaming her. She didn’t know what was going on. She asked, ‘why would I kill you?’”
BACKGROUND:
- The war between Russia and Ukraine is about to enter its third week since the invasion of Ukrainian land caused a ripple effect worldwide.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin said the purpose of the operation in Ukraine “is to protect people who, for eight years now, have been facing humiliation and genocide perpetrated by the Kiev regime. To this end, we will seek to demilitarise and denazify Ukraine, as well as bring to trial those who perpetrated numerous bloody crimes against civilians, including against citizens of the Russian Federation.”
- The International Court of Justice ordered Russia on Wednesday to immediately stop its attack on Ukraine as it investigates Putin’s claims of genocide.
- Peace talks between the two warring nations have become “more realistic” between the two nations, but the bloody conflict has continued, according to The Washington Examiner.
