Editing Aid Organisation for the Children of the Country Road

The '''Aid Organisation for the Children of the Country Road''' ([[German language|German]]: ''Hilfswerk für die Kinder der Landstrasse'') or just '''Children of the Country Road''' (''Kinder der Landstrasse'') was a programme of the [[Swiss Confederation|Swiss]] charitable organisation [[Pro Juventute]] from 1926 to 1973 which, with the support of [[Law enforcement in Switzerland|Swiss police]] and governmental institutions, separated hundreds of [[Yenish people|Yenish]] children from their parents and placed them in orphanages, foster homes, [[Psychiatry|psychiatric]] hospitals, and even prisons, all with the aim of [[assimilation]].

Forcible transfer of children from one national, ethnical, racial, or religious group to another with the intent to destroy said group is considered [[genocide]] by the [[United Nations|UN]].<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights|title=Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide|date=9 December 1948|url=https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-prevention-and-punishment-crime-genocide|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220413091325/https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-prevention-and-punishment-crime-genocide|archive-date=2022-04-13|retrieved=2022-10-28}}</ref>

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