The Ukrainian government says Russia has shelled more than 1,000 schools, destroying 95. On May 8, a bomb flattened a school in Zaporizhzhia which, like School No. 21 in Chernihiv, was being used a shelter. As many as 60 people were feared dead.
In Chernihiv alone, the city council said only seven of the city’s 35 schools were unscathed. Three were reduced to rubble. A few kilometers away, at the Sonechko pre-school in the city of Okhtyrka, a cluster bomb destroyed a kindergarten, killing a child. Outside the entrance, two more bodies lay in pools of blood.
UNICEF communications director Toby Fricker, who is currently in Ukraine, agreed. “School is often the heart of the community in many places, and that is so central to everyday life.”Teachers and students who have lived through other conflicts say the destruction of schools in their countries damaged an entire generation.
Jasminko Halilovic was only 6 years old when Sarajevo, in present-day Bosnia-Herzegovina, was besieged. Now, 30 years after the Bosnian war ended, he and his peers are the ones still picking up the pieces. “When they see their school destroyed, do you know how many dreams have been destroyed? Do you think anybody would believe in peace and love and beauty when the place that taught them about these things has been destroyed?” he said.
The key for prosecutors, then, will be to show that there was a pattern by the Russians of targeting schools and other civilian buildings nationwide as a concerted military strategy, Bosco said.
frontlinepbs RU is working to erase UKR language/culture — cultural genocide. UKR principal, saying if curriculum is changed kids won’t be able to go to university. RU person pressuring them for change: “Which universities? What for? We need workers and soldiers.'
frontlinepbs 'The bodies of the children all lie here, dumped into this narrow trench hastily dug into the frozen earth of Mariupol to the constant drumbeat of shelling.' When we all said NeverAgain, did we mean it? Or not? RussianWarCrimes StandUpForUkraine
frontlinepbs because of the Ukrainian army, neo-Nazi ukraine prefers to choose school as a place to be stationed
frontlinepbs Most of these schools are filled with azov fanatics. I'll be happy to be wrong, but the evidence says otherwise
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