The humanitarian mission "Black Tulip" is a project of the SBI Union "People's Memory" [1] , the purpose of which is to search, exhumate and remove the dead Ukrainian military in the ATO zone. The mission was carried out as part of the Humanitarian Project of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “EVACUATION 200” (from September 2, 2014 to September 30, 2016). Since September 30, 2016, search engines of the SBI Union “People's Memory” have not been involved in the implementation of the “EVACUATION 200” project.
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Creation History
"Black Tulip" began work in the ATO zone on September 2, 2014 at the request of the Armed Forces of Ukraine , which after the battles near Ilovaisk could not collect the bodies of dead soldiers. DNR combatants did not allow the Ukrainian military to collect the bodies of the dead in the territories they controlled, but agreed to a civilian volunteer mission. Later, “Black Tulip” became a part of the Evacuation 200 humanitarian project of the Armed Forces of Ukraine together with civil-military cooperation groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and employees of the National Military History Museum of Ukraine .
Since October 2016, the Black Tulip humanitarian mission and the Evacuation 200 project have been working in parallel.
Members
- 30 non-governmental organizations (mainly members of the People’s Memory Union).
- 101 volunteers (88 search engine volunteers and 13 administrative department volunteers).
Activities in the ATO zone
2014
The work was carried out in the Donetsk region in Starobeshevsky [2] , Amvrosievsky [3] and Shakhtyorsk [4] districts.
In the first week, the search was conducted in the region of the height of Saur-Mogila [5] in the triangle between the settlements of Petrovskoye , Stepanovka and Marinovka .
On September 9, at a briefing, representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Military History Museum of Ukraine and the All-Union Public Union “People’s Memory” spoke about the Humanitarian Project, its program, contact numbers and first results. The Chairman of the Board of the NGO “Union of People’s Memory” Yaroslav Zhilkin noted that as of the morning of September 9, the remains of 18 servicemen had been found and evacuated in the area of Saur-Mogila barrow [6] . They are transferred for identification, with a high degree of probability one person has already been identified.
A bit later, search engines carried out work in the Ilovaisk region [7] : p. Hrabskoe , Polyfield , Kuteynikovo . Since November, the search for the dead began in the Anthracite district of the Luhansk region .
In just 89 days, the search groups worked out 27 settlements and the territory adjacent to them. An autopsy of 49 burial places of dead soldiers was carried out. The bodies of about 180 dead servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations were exhumed, evacuated and handed over to representatives of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine . The names of more than two dozen dead have been established. They are identified by the documents they found with them, personal belongings, related materials, as well as by the information that the surviving military personnel, friends and relatives of the victims passed to the search engines. According to statistics, it was possible to identify every tenth dead.
2015
From January 1 to April 30, 2015, the All-Ukrainian public organization “People’s Memory” Union, under the leadership of the Department of Civil-Military Cooperation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, began the second stage of the search, exhumation, and evacuation of the bodies of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military units, who died during the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine.
Since the beginning of 2015, work has been carried out in the regions of the Lugansk region .
Donetsk region is all the same Starobeshevsky , Amvrosievsky and Shakhtar districts , and now Yasinovatsky and Bakhmutsky districts .
Lugansk region is Slavyanoserbsky , Novoaydarsky and Perevalsky districts .
During the first stage of the mission, the work was mainly carried out on the exhumation of the bodies of the dead in the territory beyond the control of Ukraine; since the beginning of the second stage (2015), the work was mainly carried out on transporting the bodies of the dead from intermediate morgues to the morgues of the city of Dnieper [8] .
Such intermediates in the Donetsk region are the morgues of cities: Donetsk , Konstantinovka , Bakhmut , Selidovo , Mariupol , Uglegorsk [9] , Pokrovsk , Debaltseve [10] [11] , Enakievo , Avdeevka .
In the Lugansk region - morgues of Lugansk and Krasnodon .
In just 120 days, search teams worked in 14 settlements and adjacent territories. An autopsy of 11 burial places of dead military personnel was performed. The bodies of about 375 dead servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations were exhumed, evacuated and handed over to representatives of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. The names of more than half of the dead are established.
From May 1 to December 30, 2015, the groups examined (half of them repeatedly) 60 settlements.
Donetsk region - about 50, large ones: the area of Donetsk , Bakhmut , Pokrovsk , Snezhnoye , Uglegorsk , n. p. Kurakhovo , Donetsk airport [12] .
Lugansk region - about 10, of which: Severodonetsk , n. Nizhny Nagolchik , Rayevka , Dyakovo .
20 exhumations were carried out, transportation of the bodies of the dead - 43, exhumated (32) and transported (65) of the bodies - 97. The number of identified persons of the dead was 60 (of those with whom the documents were 13) [13] .
2016
Since the beginning of the year, volunteers managed to go round a large number of settlements in the ATO zone, including: Slavyansk , s. Controversial [14] , the city of Debaltseve , n. p. Kremennaya , Pokrovsk , pos. Yampol [15] and others [16] .
106 bodies (fragments) were found, evacuated and transported, 30 bodies (fragments) were found and delivered to the SME (forensic medical examination) bodies, 7 bodies (fragments) were evacuated, 24 bodies were transported from the frontline territory to the SME bodies ( fragments), delivered to relatives for burial - 45 bodies.
Further training
Since the beginning of the existence of the Black Tulip humanitarian mission, its participants have been taking courses of the International Committee of the Red Cross every year, improving and improving their search skills [17] . The Committee annually holds trainings [18] , courses [19] , seminars [20] and lectures around the world, through which they teach how to protect victims and provide them with the necessary assistance.
Notes
- ↑ Appeal to the search engines and volunteers of Ukraine | People's Memory Union
- ↑ The remains of seven Ukrainian military found near Starobeshevo - Korrespondent.net
- ↑ Fragments of the remains and a soldier’s medallion were found by Black Tulip search engines | Humanitarian mission "Black Tulip"
- ↑ Summary from the anti-terrorist operation zone: bodies of eight Ukrainian soldiers found on Thursday | Humanitarian mission "Black Tulip"
- ↑ Yaroslav Zhilkin: On Saur-Mogile we find mass graves for 12 people (video) | podrobnosti.ua
- ↑ Volunteers have known 18 Ukrainian cities near Savur-Mogili district | Humanitarian mission "Black Tulip"
- ↑ Resource is blocked
- ↑ The situation in Debaltseve: the bodies of 64 soldiers killed near Debaltseve were delivered to Dnepropetrovsk - War in the East - TCH.ua
- ↑ "Black Tulip" in the ATO zone: 46 dead military men were taken out in a week | Humanitarian mission "Black Tulip"
- ↑ Archived copy (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment January 20, 2017. Archived February 2, 2017.
- ↑ Resource is blocked
- ↑ Volunteer: “200th” was taken from Donetsk airport | Humanitarian mission "Black Tulip"
- ↑ Mother of the deceased fighter: when we were looking for a son, we were “kicked” from everywhere | Humanitarian mission "Black Tulip"
- ↑ VIDEO: In the anti-terrorist operation zone the remains of eight missing people are found | Humanitarian mission "Black Tulip"
- ↑ Know how to find new ones died during the hour of battle in Donetsk region (video)
- ↑ During the year, “Black Tulip” found 106 dead bodies in the Donbass
- ↑ Black Tulip mission participant shared experience with Quick Response Units | Humanitarian mission "Black Tulip"
- ↑ Volunteers completed trainings that will help them in the ATO zone | Humanitarian mission "Black Tulip"
- ↑ In October 2016, representatives of the Black Tulip Humanitarian Mission (NGO “People's Memory” Union) attended an ICRC lecture course | People's Memory Union
- ↑ Ukrainian search engines trained at the helicopter crash training site. PHOTO (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment January 20, 2017. Archived February 2, 2017.
Links
- All-Ukrainian portal for the search for missing persons
- The site of the NGO “Union of People's Memory”
- "BLACK TULIP": THEY HAVE RETURNED THOUSANDS DIED TO THEIR FAMILIES
- The book of memory is dead
- Ukrainian families await news from battlefield's tragic harvest
- 'If not us, then who?' In Ukraine, volunteers collect soldiers' bodies
- Ukraine: Die unbekannten Soldaten müssen gefunden werden
- The body collector from Ukraine
- Po prostu - "Czarny Tulipan" z Donbasu