Russia sends Ukrainian children to re-education camps and orphanages, US says

More than 6,000 children aged four months to 17 from Ukraine have been sent by Russia to re-education camps or the Russian adoption system, according to a Yale University Research Laboratory study released Tuesday. State Department.

According to this study, Russia sent over 6,000 minors Ukraine to these camps or other facilities since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

Violation of the Geneva Convention

Expert Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the American laboratory, known in English as Yale HRL, indicated in a virtual press conference that they have “evidence” that Russia violated the Geneva Convention and “other elements” of international law on the rights of minors and their protection in armed conflict.

According to the investigation, Moscow holds Ukrainian minors in 43 centers, 41 of which were used in the past for children’s summer camps.

Raymond also elaborated that “78% of these institutions carry out some form of re-education of Ukrainian minors, mainly from areas such as Donetsk and Luhansk” in the east. Ukraine.

He added that there are other minors who have confirmed that they are placed in the adoption system and in Russian orphanages.

The expert drew attention to the “massive” geographical scope of this Russian activity, because the centers where Ukrainian minors are sent are located in different parts, for example, on the Crimean peninsula, occupied Russia- Moscow, the Black Sea and Siberia.

And there is even such a facility in Magadan on Russia’s Pacific coast, “closer to the US mainland than to Moscow,” Raymond said.

The expert explained that there are two groups of minors: on the one hand, they are from Donetsk and Luhansk, who make up the bulk of the 6,000 children, the number of which is calculated on the basis of reports on transfers to re-education camps.

The second refers to the fact that Russia he names “evacuees” from Kherson, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhia, whom Raymond says are being placed in the Russian adoption system.

military education

The US expert emphasized that they were able to identify about 32 centers where “systematic re-education efforts” are being carried out to “introduce” underage Ukrainians to military education, in addition to Russian academic education and cultural patriotism.

Another one in charge of studying USACaitlin Howarth, explained that when it comes to military training, it’s not about minors sitting in class and listening to what their instructors say, but about being “handy with firearms.”

“We have video and photography (of minors) driving on roads with obstacles, doing physical training, driving vehicles and weapons…,” he listed.

Raymond came to the conclusion that these actions Russia uses a comprehensive nationwide approach to the re-education, resettlement and forced adoption of Ukrainian minors.

“This is exactly what some of the early Nazi trials before the Nuremberg Tribunal suggested. There is certainly no confusion in international law: actions Russia are illegal and may constitute a war crime and a crime against humanity,” he concluded.

(As reported by EFE)

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