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[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think you mean Baltic.

Just gonna also throw out that a ton of the world's stateless people live in the Baltic countries because they denied ethnic minorities citizenship after the fall of the USSR unlike every other former Soviet country. IIRC Lithuania isn't involved in that at least, I think just Estonia and Latvia.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow. I'm pretty sure that's a capital C Crime Against Humanity.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe most countries have signed an agreement never to create a stateless person due to how vulnerable they are to abuse.

That's a why, for example, the ukkk claims that Shamina Begum was a Bangladeshi citizen when they revoked her citizenship.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember that. That was really fucked. Political exiles in the democracy loving freedom of speech west? Hardly surprising but very against the marketing. I still don't entirely understand what their purpose is with that. Is it a way to reinforce anti-immigrant rhetoric in preparation for some kind of V for Vendetta more fascist Britain thing?

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Forces the Kurds and/or Bangladesh to deal with a maw terrorist so the Queen doesn't have to pay the costs of imprisoning her

[–] NoGodsNoMasters@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah it's pretty bad. You could conceivably have had parents born in the country and been born in the country yourself and still be denied citizenship in 1991 because they refused to recognise anything Soviet