Orphans from Kherson were sent to a concentration camp orphanage in Crimea

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18:10, 27.01.2023

At least 14 orphans from Kherson were moved by Russian authorities to the Yolochka orphanage in Crimea.



This is reported by The Wurst.

Lawyers believe this displacement of children violates the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.

Letters to Father Christmas

The specific location of the children has been revealed through photographs that were published on the "Adoption in the Moscow Region" website. The regional Ministry of Social Development summed up the "Become Father Christmas" campaign for orphans from the occupied territories and published over 700 pictures of children with presents. The pictures were accompanied by letters to Father Christmas, in which the children wrote briefly about themselves," the article says.

Journalists noticed letters prepared by teachers on behalf of several young children. 14 postcards were signed with the same handwriting - and each mentioned that the child who was addressing Father Christmas came from Kherson.

The kids were photographed in the same interiors of the "Christmas Tree" orphanage, which specialises in working with children with lesions of the central nervous system, mental and behavioural disorders, hearing, vision and HIV.

Bullying

Some years ago there was a scandal in this orphanage. Several foster families told that they took children from "Yolochka" with extreme exhaustion.

I put him in the bathtub and took a flannel and he suddenly started screaming", said Zoya Sergeeva, a foster mother of one of the "Christmas Tree" children, "He jumped up in tears and turned his face to the wall, his feet at shoulder width and his hands against the wall. It was like being in jail. That was how they bathed them. He was afraid of the pot and wiping his butt. I don't know what they were doing, why the child was shaking so much.

How children from Kherson got to Crimea

Back in October, the then Russian-appointed deputy head of the Kherson oblast administration, Kirill Stremousov, said that 46 orphans from the Kherson Baby Home had been sent to Crimea.

According to lawyer Olha Gnezdilova, the Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War prohibits moving children from the territory of combat operations to the territory of the aggressor state or its occupied territories. Children should be provided with humanitarian corridors to the safe zone of their home country or a neutral country.

Children under 18 cannot make such decisions on their own and their relocation can be said to be violent. If the removal of children is seen as saving them from bombing, Russia should return them to Ukraine, they can be placed in regions where there are no hostilities," the lawyer said.

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Elena Rasenko
Elena Rasenko
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