India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir

Re:India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistan... by hnpolicestate on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @10:56AM (#43916575)

This doesn't sound factual to me. The children you quoted as being "kidnapped" lived in regions of Russia that voted to secede from Ukraine. They are defacto Russian citizens. Their parents voted for it.

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Re:India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistan... by sofixa on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @12:49PM (#43917967)

Voting with a foreign military presence doesn't count.

Also, a lot of the kids are orphans (their parents having been murdered by the Russians). And a lot have parents trying to trace them and get them back (there's a whole association for this).

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Re:India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistan... by krainboltgreene on Thursday May 08, 2025 @05:52PM (#43931740)

Weird, because we have military bases in a lot of countries that seem to vote.

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Re:India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistan... by sofixa on Friday May 09, 2025 @02:22AM (#43934289)

(guessing you are American) and there have been similar abuses by US troops, like infamously in Haiti in the early 20th century, where the locals had to ask a US Marine for the ballot of the candidate they wanted to vote for.

But I'm not aware of anything of this type happening today. Do the US soldiers in e.g. Rammstein go to police how people vote?

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