Latvia – the shame of Europe! Russian children taken from parents to be re-educated by the State

Infowars Ireland Staff Writer

One of the Latvian government’s main priorities is the complete assimilation of the Russian minority, which constitutes almost half of the population. To achieve this goal they have resorted to every trick in the book: from all sorts of promises to blatant discrimination. But, despite all the tricks, the Russian do not want to become Letts.

But Latvian officials do not give up, and continue to seek new ways to naturalize “the occupiers”. They have resorted to the most extreme and devious methods, for example, in the city of Daugavpils they use the juvenile court system to place Russian children into State care for the flimsiest of reasons.

In countries where this system already operates, parents not only cease to be the childs legal guardians, in many cases the child is no longer allowed to live with their natural parents.

So, the staff of “juvenile justice” (similar to CPS in the USA) in the city of Daugavpils kidnapped a Russian girl – a first grader. She was hidden from her parents, under lock and key, and trained intensively in the Latvian language. Vika Golubeva, a pupil of school № 16 in Daugavpils, was taken directly from her class during lessons on September 17th and taken to an unknown place. When her father and grandmother went to collect her from school that day, school director Taisia Voronetskaya told them that their child had been “seized” and was in custody by order of the “juvenile justice” department.

The worried parents and grandmother began looking for the child. Of course, they appealed to the court of wards. Recently appointed chairperson Inga Caune when asked the question; “where is our child?” answered; “where necessary!”. They were denied all access to Vika and were never told where she was. As it turned out, the girl was sent to a Latvian family, she was not even allowed to go to school and was subjected to intensive “language sessions” in Latvian.

Vika managed to phone her father on a mobile phone, she was crying, hungry and hysterical.

The director of Vika’s school, Taisiya Voronetskaya, intervened directly on behalf of the girl’s parents, but was informed by the city educational authorities that Russian children who do not meet the minimum standard of fluency in the Latvian language were to be placed with Latvian host families and relocated to Latvian schools.

However, teachers were quick to realise that this practice must be of questionable legality and they approached various law enforcement agencies about the matter.

Vika’s granmother also contacted Maya Lazdane, the childrens welfare inspector in the city, but was stonewalled by bureaucratic red tape. As a last resort the family turned to the press, however Latvian journalists told the family that the government was not committing a crime.

The family has relatives in Krasnodar, Russia, who did their best to intervene on their behalf and invited the family to move to Russia and live with them. Vika’s family were told however that leaving Latvia was not an option, they were free to leave but without their daughter… Vika was practically a hostage now.

For two months Vika’s family suffered terrible anxiety until finally there was a court proceeding on the matter. They were only allowed to see their daughter for 15 minutes in the courthouse. No distinct reason was ever given for their daughter’s continuing detention and her forced separation from them.

The court did however suggest that Vika’s family send their daughter fruits, vegetables, sweets and clothing, as her new foster family were not wealthy! Vika’s grandmother offered to formalize custody during the court proceeding – and to provide all information and other documents that were necessary to request custody of the child. Relatives are also seeking assistance from the Latvian Ombudsman, Roman Apsītis.

The parents and grandmother are outraged: after the two month “confinement” and stress forced upon Vika she was finally given a place in a new school – a Latvian speaking school. But this is still a clear case of forced assimilation.

The fact that all the efforts of relatives met with an impenetrable wall, suggests that this is not just an example of excessively zealous, unwise officials, rather a deliberate policy of the Latvian government. Some representatives of the Russian community in Latvia feel that this is a “range testing” method by the Latvian fascists preparing “a final solution of the Russian problem.” Russian and Russian-speaking residents of Latvia will be faced with a dilemma: either leave the republic, or lose their children to Latvian families.

If these fears prove justified, then this would amount to a veritable genocide. As you know, Russia’s leadership has repeatedly stated that the protection of the rights of expatriates is one of the priorities of Russia’s foreign policy. Vika’s case reaffirms that Russia is justified in maintaining a vigilant stance on such matters.

Source: www.baltija.eu/news/read/3117

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