RTL-NEWS / ANP have interviewed Jan Tuinder, Head of Coordination Centre
http://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/binnenland/onderzoek-vliegramp-oekraine#node_972241
ONE COFFIN IS NOT ONE BODY
Translation of the interview:
Dozens of forensic specialists in Kharkov make sure that the remains of the victims of the air crash ' go home ', as Jan Tuinder, who leads the coordination centre, describes their care.
Five questions for the policeman.
What is your main task?
"We know how many people were on the plane, but we don't know who is who. We will determine their identity in The Netherlands.
Here we collect remains, of which we sometimes don't even know what piece of the body it is, and we make sure that can be transported in a safe and decent way. "
How do the forensic experts react to what they find?
"It is high-quality work that is being done under bizarre circumstances by professional people of flesh and blood. You see how they move back and forth between anger and sadness, you know you're working with human remains that went through horror. On the other hand, there is also relief that you are able to bring them home. That makes the work so special. "
This operation differs a lot from your work after other disasters?
"Every disaster is different, the emotion seems to be the same. But in this case there is a huge difference: human intent was behind what happened. Probably not the intent to kill these people. But there has been someone who has fired something intentionally. It's bad enough to have to accept that a plane crashed, but now you have also have the anger that it would not have been necessary. That is also our drive to do our work as well as possible. "
Does each box that is flown over contain one body?
"No. People who see 40 crates, may think that we have 40 names and bodies. That is not the case. In a box are one or more body bags containing remains of still unidentified victims. We have four train cars with body bags. Only when all wagons are cleared out, we can determine how many body bags we had. "
How long will you be active in Ukraine?
"That's not clear. We won't leave until before we have managed to get everything out of the country. We know that remains are still left behind in the disaster area, that area is 1.5 km wide and 14 km long. It will be quite a challenge to clean it all. But we want to identify all the remains that we find. So that the victims can be buried. And we want to know what happened. As a police officer I want the culprit brought to justice. "
:rose:
Bless them all !
