BPR's Rada: Belarus Is the One Who Suffered the Most from the Chernobyl Accident

Rada of the Belarusian People's Republic delivered a message dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident.

On its Facebook page it states that "Belarus has suffered the most from the Chernobyl disaster, it will affect the country many centuries. The third part of the country was polluted with radiation, vast territories have become uninhabitable. First of all, the number of oncology diseases caused by the Chernobyl accident has increased in Belarus."

The statement of the BPR's Rada notes that "the communist regime (both central all-union authorities and occupant "republican" authorities of the BSSR) is completely responsible for what happened in Belarus:

- The Chernobyl disaster itself has become the result of ineffective soviet economic management, soviet technologies and mistakes in the construction;

- After the accident the communist government tried to veil or to underestimate the disaster, unless the radioactive emission reached the Western Europe;

- The communist leaders made a crime of omission in the most important first days after the accident, and spent May holidays as usual instead of taking measures to inform about measures to be taken;

- According to some information, the soviet air forces intentionally stopped clouds in the territory of Mahileyu and Homel regions, for them not to reach Russia and Moscow."

The BPR's Rada draws attention to the fact that "Belarus has not received any pecuniary damages both from the soviet government and judicial successor of the USSR - the Russian Federation."

The statement also mentions that "since 90s the Lukashenka's regime has been conducting reclamation of the Chernobyl territories, all scientists, who warn about the danger of such policy, have faced repressions. The polluted area is used in agriculture. Participants of the mitigation of emergency are deprived of benefits. Besides, the Lukashenka's regime builds up the nuclear plant in Astrautsy near the border with Lithuania and hires Russian contract employees and soviet technologies".

The BPR's Rada also calls for "reliable policy in the energy sector, agriculture and territory expansion, not to tolerate the risk of a new similar accident and to overcome the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster in the most effective way".

"The BPR's Rada requires termination of the construction of the Astravets nuclear power station, unless the full-fledged, open and fair discussion of the issue in the Belarusian society," the statement says.