Investigation into recruitment of citizens into russian army has begun in Peru
An increasing number of countries are officially acknowledging the problem of the illegal recruitment of their citizens into the russian army.
The Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into the mass disappearance of citizens who were lured into the russian army under false pretenses. These cases are classified as human trafficking. To date, relatives have filed 135 official missing person reports, and human rights activists report the deaths of at least 13 people.
People were promised legal jobs as taxi drivers, cooks, or engineers, along with high salaries. Instead, upon arrival in russia, the foreigners had their passports confiscated, were forced to sign contracts in russian, and after brief military training, were sent to the front lines.
The situation in peru mirrors schemes russia previously implemented in African countries. The use of foreigners as “cannon fodder” is becoming a systematic state policy of moscow.
The intensification of kremlin propaganda in Latin America, Africa, and Asia has a clearly pragmatic goal. Behind the slogans of “multipolarity” lies russia’s intention to turn the inhabitants of the Global South into a cheap resource to compensate for the losses of its army in the war.
