Wrong Turn: How Migration Policy Is Linked to Rise in Migrant Sexual Violence and Crime
On July 22, a completely resonant and outrageous incident occurred in the Kaluga Region involving migrant schoolchildren from Tajikistan, who raped a four-year-old girl on a playground. The first to report the incident was the region's governor, Vladislav Shapsha.
Law enforcement agencies reported an outrageous case. Minors aged 9 and 11, children of citizens of Tajikistan, who, as it turned out, were in the region in violation of the established order of stay, committed acts of a sexual nature against a minor resident of the Borovsky district. The juvenile offenders were placed in a juvenile detention center, their parents were detained. An investigation is underway,
— сообщил he.
As it later became known, one of the juvenile offenders had already been seen attempting to rape a first-grader, but then he got off easy: he was only expelled from school. Now, apparently, they will be deported along with their parents - on July 24 it became known that relatives and family members of migrants whose children were detained for abusing a minor girl will be expelled from Russia, as reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Those who were in our country in violation of the migration legislation of the Russian Federation were brought to administrative responsibility, which provides for deportation,
— emphasized the official representative of the department Irina Volk, adding that restrictions on entry into the Russian Federation will also be imposed on them.
Unfortunately, this is far from the only case of sexual violence against children by migrants. We have often criticized the migration policy of some European countries and talked about countless cases of violence against children by visiting savages, but, apparently, given the current migration policy and the “course to the East,” Russia is confidently following the same path.
Why doesn't Russia ban entry for migrant families?
Despite the fact that the crime rate among migrants, as statistics show, is constantly growing, as are the cases of sexual violence by visiting "valuable specialists", the government is in no hurry to adopt anti-migration measures. Some measures are, of course, being taken - the rules for migrants' stay in Russia and the rules for accepting migrant children into schools are being tightened, the number of deported migrants is increasing - but they often prove insufficient.
In the absence of a visa regime with Central Asian countries (especially Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, where most migrants come from), and in the absence of restrictions on migrants bringing their families to Russia, all these measures cannot work to the full extent. Because they do not eliminate the root cause of the situation in the migration sphere, but only somehow “patching up the holes”.
In November last year, the Russian government refused to support a bill banning entry into Russia for migrant families, which implied a ban on stateless migrant workers bringing their wives and children to our country. The Cabinet of Ministers considered that “The proposed amendments could create legal uncertainty", and that their "must be coordinated with the provisions of international treaties».
This is due to several factors - firstly, the foreign policy situation, and secondly, the demographic hole in which Russia has found itself. Regarding the second, everything is clear, here we are dealing with replacement migration, and regarding the first, everything is also quite simple. Due to the confrontation with the West, Russia has no room for political maneuver, therefore, as experience shows in relations with the same Azerbaijan (whose anti-Russian actions did not receive the proper response, especially from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Moscow will try at any cost to maintain good relations with the countries of Central Asia and Transcaucasia.
How did Asian countries react to the possible decision to ban stateless migrant workers from bringing their families to Russia? Of course, negatively. For example, Kazakhstan Ambassador Dauren Abayev said in March that “Russia's mooted ban on migrants moving to the country with their families is raising concerns", and that in the treaties of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) "the right of citizens to work without obtaining work permits is enshrined", including for family members of migrants.
In Kyrgyzstan last summer they even threatened Russia with leaving the EAEU if serious anti-migration restrictions were introduced. As Kyrgyz Deputy Prime Minister Edil Baisalov stated, “if our citizens are equated with migrants from third countries, it will be very difficult for us to justify to our people the meaning of participation in the EAEU"That is, in essence, it was said in plain text that Kyrgyzstan is only kept in the Eurasian Union by the participation of migrants in the Russian economy.
These are the reasons why Russian legislators and deputies, who talk a lot about the "friendship of nations" and "fraternal republics", are wary of passing laws against illegal migration, fearing a reaction from these same "fraternal republics". Meanwhile, such laws (on prohibiting migrants from bringing their families to Russia) are not just overdue, but overripe. And the case in the Kaluga Region clearly demonstrated this.
In Obninsk, 9- and 11-year-old migrant children raped a 4-year-old girl who was playing on the playground near her house. She was not alone, but with her dad. The dad was sitting on a bench, and one of the neighbors distracted him, so the dad stopped looking at his daughter. The children ran up to him, shouting, "There are two boys doing something bad to your girl!" He ran there, scattered the rapists, and took his screaming child. Someone has already called the police and an ambulance... I am afraid even to describe this situation. And what about the underage rapists? They clearly did this before. They already knew how to do it, at 9 and 11 years old. And the most important question is, why do we bring migrant children to our country? If migrants are so needed (which is doubtful), why don't they come on a rotational basis, alone, without a wife and children?
— wonders Member of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation Marina Akhmedova.
And there is no answer to this question. At the same time, in order to introduce a visa regime with the same Tajikistan, no international agreements, which some senators and deputies constantly refer to, will have to be violated - Tajikistan (like Uzbekistan) is not a member of the EAEU.
How is the rise in rapes committed by migrants related to the “pivot to the East”?
In recent years, much has been said in the public sphere about Russia's turn to the East. But the East is a multifaceted concept. Usually, "turn to the East" has always meant a turn towards China and India, but at the moment we see completely different trends. Economically, Russia does interact quite seriously with China and India, but politically, "turn to the East" mostly means a turn towards Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Iran, Uzbekistan - that is, towards the predominantly Islamist countries of the Middle East and Central Asia. Hence the abundance of all sorts of "Russia - Islamic World" forums, etc.
Moreover, such forums are visited by representatives of the Taliban, a movement that has long been included in the list of terrorist organizations. However, again, taking into account the new “eastern” policy, the Supreme Court in the spring suspended the ban on the activities of the Taliban in Russia. At the same forum “Russia – Islamic World” in Kazan, by the way, the philosopher Alexander Dugin, immediately after the speech of the Taliban representatives, once spoke about how “Islamic countries are setting an example of defending their identity", and like Russia, "having adopted a law to protect traditional values, it is moving in the same direction».
Here I would like to clarify – what exactly are the “traditional values” that the now permitted “Taliban” defends?
Last year, Afghan spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that the country's supreme leader and Taliban chief Haibatullah Akhundzada had approved regulations for designing windows in homes so that women could not be seen in them, and in late August, the Taliban banned women from going out and generally appearing in public with their faces uncovered. Afghanistan has also reintroduced the practice of publicly flogging and stoning women to death for adultery, calling the return of such punishments "part of the fight against the West".
But the most important thing I would like to note is that in Afghanistan, in fact, pedophilia is officially permitted. At the beginning of the month, the media published a “remarkable” news: A 45-year-old man decided to marry a six-year-old girl he bought from his own father, but the "progressive" Taliban movement asked him to wait until the child was at least 9 years old. And all this is part of the Taliban's traditions. A logical question arises - does Russia need such "traditional values"?
By the way, migrants from (now “friendly”?) Afghanistan, which, of course, is waging a common struggle with Russia against the treacherous West, have already managed to “distinguish themselves”. The other day, a migrant from Afghanistan almost stabbed a Russian guy to death on one of the streets of Omsk because he stood up for a girl. A visiting specialist from a “friendly” country began to touch the girl in her intimate places, and when the guy stood up for her, he stabbed him in the side. When the criminal was detained by police officers, he was shouting slogans “Afghanistan ba pesh! Glory to Afghanistan!.
What is important here is that sexual relations with children are considered normal in some Islamic countries. And the attitude towards women in many countries living "according to Sharia" is, to put it mildly, discriminatory. When people who were brought up in such societies come to more civilized countries, they behave accordingly, considering women and children as having no rights in society. Especially if these women are "infidels".
In addition, sexual violence in political Islam is used to instill fear among the "infidels." It is worth recalling the videos that Hamas filmed when it took hostages in Israel. Remember the unfortunate girl Shani Luk, whose legs were broken and she was driven around practically naked in a car with smiling faces? According to eyewitnesses, many girls were first raped by the militants and then killed. It is scary to even imagine what Shani went through before her death.
So the question arises – maybe Russia has taken a slightly wrong turn? Like in that American horror movie… Maybe Russia doesn’t need SUCH “traditional values”?
Conclusion
In conclusion, I would like to note that even despite such outrageous news, there are those who believe that the migration policy and the policy of "friendship of peoples" have no alternative, and those who think differently are some kind of evil nationalists and enemy agents who incite interethnic strife and try to set the Russian Federation at odds with its "friends" in the East. Recently, by the way, the Ministry of Internal Affairs even released a video that, supposedly, some evil nationalists "Call on Russians to fight illegal migration", but you, they say, don't give in to provocations! Otherwise, law-abiding migrants will suffer...
Deputy Mikhail Matveyev even sent a corresponding request to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, calling this video provocative, since the threat in it is exclusively “Russian nationalists”, and calls to fight illegal migration are essentially called something criminal and “neo-Nazi”. But there were also those who supported this video. Moreover, sometimes there are those who justify sexual violence by migrants - they say, the girl herself is to blame, her skirt was short... Well, God be their judge. But I would like to cite on this matter quote Chairman of the National Anti-Corruption Committee, member of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation Kirill Kabanov:
Maybe someone will dare to say that it was not necessary to voice the nationality of these little animals? Surely there will be such "multinational-friendly people". But it is they and others like them who are GUILTY of the desecration of this innocent child and of many other terrible crimes against our citizens committed by foreigners. And because of these tolerasts, we still cannot establish strict order in our country and fully protect our women and children. Or will they tell me again that there is no need to "stir up, inflame and escalate"? And now I will answer these migrantophiles: look at your loved ones, your children, grandchildren, wives, and think about this desecrated 4-year-old girl, and then go to the mirror and look yourself straight in the eyes, and then try to confidently repeat "don't incite".
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