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From: World by Carolina Lumetta
In the Conflict Observatory at the Yale Humanitarian Research Laboratory, some staffers don’t know their coworkers’ real name—one of several security precautions to prevent Russia from tracking them. They spend their days combing through data, finding ways into Russian databases, and scrutinizing color matches to wallpapers posted on social media. They are working to identify and track as many as 35,000 Ukrainian children who they believe were separated from their families since the war started. The Yale lab found that most of those children are being put through summer reeducation camps or offered for adoption online.
“This is the single largest kidnapping in world history since World War II,” Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Yale Humanitarian Research Laboratory, told me. The Conflict Observatory is housed within the lab. “[Russian President Vladimir] Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, the child rights commissioner, have engaged in industrialized child abduction and re-education and, in some cases, military training.”
In December, the Conflict Observatory identified three interconnected databases used by Russia and its Ministry of Education.
“They were putting children from Ukraine up for adoption and fostering through these databases, basically eBay for orphans,” Raymond told me.
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