Chernobylski Shlyach 2014
No to nuclear threat! We won't allow to make our native land, the country, the planet a new Chernobyl!
The 20th century is called nuclear for a reason. In the 20th century the mankind invented, made and tested various types of atomic weapons, including the most destructive ones. In the 20th century the nuclear bomb was given a "peaceful sister" in the form of the nuclear power. It allowed to provide the nuclear industry a dual purpose under the guise of satisfaction of daily needs. In the 20th century nuclear technologies became a cause of death and diseases of hundreds of thousands of people, turned fertile lands, beautiful places of the planet into deserted radioactive "zones".
In the second half of the 20th century there were more than 1000 explosions of nuclear and hydrogen bombs of high power which wiped off islands and unique natural complexes. In regions of nuclear weapon tests people are still ill and die from cancer and children are born disabled.
In the 20th century in the so-called local conflicts in Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Iran, Libya ammunition on the basis of the grown poor uranium was applied. These zones will remain "hot spots" vastly long: the highly toxic uranium dust remains hazardous for 4,5 billion years! In these regions an epidemic of oncological diseases have already begun. In Chechnya about 70% of children have pathologies.
In the 20th century there was the largest for all history of mankind radiation accident at the Chernobyl NPP which affected not only Ukraine but also countries of Western Europe and most of Belarusian territory. Consequences of this accident in Belarus are suppressed to this day. The state develops lands polluted with dangerous radionuclides and makes them agricultural; it stimulates former inhabitants to return to these lands. In turn, such organizations as IAEA and WHO seek to convince people in absence of significant consequences of Chernobyl's disaster, reinterpreting official data on hundreds of thousands of victims.
The radiation accident on the Fukushima plant-1 happened at the beginning of the 21st century, the consequences became comparable to Chernobyl. To the water area of the Pacific Ocean hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of radioactive water still continue to leak, the most part of farmlands in Japan is polluted with dangerous radionuclides, children's oncological incidence sharply grows.
In the 80th of the last century the mankind realized that it came to a dangerous line which could lead to disappearance of civilization and, probably, of life on Earth. The USA and the Soviet Union began a program for disarmament which proceeded after collapse of the USSR. Belarus and Ukraine removed nuclear weapons and declared a nuclear-free status.
After Chernobyl the refusal of nuclear power in the world began. Norway, Denmark, Austria and other European states concentrated on nuclear-free development. Particularly after Fukushima this tendency found new breath - in nuclear Japan 48 of 50 reactors were stopped. In Italy and Lithuania with national referenda and in Poland with a local one decisions were made against nuclear power plant construction. Germany, Belgium and Switzerland declared the wish to move towards a refusal of "peaceful atom". France declared a reduction of the share of nuclear power from 75% to 50%. Venezuela ceased to consider prospect of construction of the nuclear power plant.
The totalitarian countries only seek to take control of nuclear technologies today. It is obvious that political, military or corruption interests are behind it. Besides Lukashenko's dictatorial ambitions the nuclear power plant construction in Belarus is supported by the Russian nuclear expansion with purpose – to put our country (Belarus) in economic and political dependence. Such 'nuclear' dependence, in addition to already existing ones (monetary and resource), will lead Belarus to full loss of the sovereignty.
The decision on nuclear power plant construction in Belarus was made not by the people of our country but by its government. The construction of the Ostrovets nuclear power plant goes in inadmissible haste, with numerous violations of laws, technical norms, and it was launched before development of the project, its examination and licensing for construction. The nuclear power plant in Belarus is under construction on experimental Russian technology, and its risks are hidden from the Belarusian people and the international public.
This year on the agenda there was a military threat from Russia. Putin's regime annexed the Crimea peninsula by means of military force and concentrated a record-breaking number of military near the borders of the independent Ukraine which has chosen a democratic way of development. Belarus placed the Russian military battle planes, capable to bear on-board tactical nuclear weapon in the country territory and allowed Russia to concentrate military formations on the border with Ukraine.
Is it necessary to tell about troubles that war will turn back on Belarusians even in case of local actions?
We as citizens of Belarus don't want to be hostages of imperial ambitions of dictators! We won't allow to make a new Chernobyl in our city, land, country and the Planet! We demand:
- To stop immediately the construction of the nuclear power plant! To cancel the decisions connected with the Belarusian nuclear power plant and decisions accepted with violations of the Belarusian and international legislation. To make investigation of the violations of laws that were allowed at construction of the nuclear power plant and to punish those who are guilty. To develop and discuss in public a strategy of sustainable nuclear-free development of Belarus.
- To open information on consequences of Chernobyl in Belarus. To stop economic development and settling of the polluted territories. To restore action of the law "About Social Protection of Citizens of Republic of Belarus Which Was Injured from the Chernobyl Accident" adopted in 1991 and to take real measures for its implementation, by providing opportunities for resettlement of people from the territories polluted by Chernobyl.
- To remove the Russian military battle planes, capable to bear on-board tactical nuclear weapons from the territory of Belarus. To take the Russian military formations away from borders with Ukraine from the Belarusian territory which are creating a threat of war with participation of Belarus. To observe the neutral nuclear-free status as the Constitution of Belarus orders!
- To give citizens a chance to decide on questions concerned with Belarusian environment, cities and the country itself! To carry out democratic reforms by providing a freedom of speech, meetings, creation of public organizations and political parties, carrying out free and transparent elections. To release all political prisoners!
We are for a nuclear-free world! We are for steady and safe power! We are for Belarusian power independence! No to nuclear power plant! No to war!
