This is what I’ve shot on April 15th 2009, during my stay in Minsk and the Opera re-opening. It was an atmosphere like in a fairy tale. Guests: Various ministers (belarusian, russian, cutlture minister, foreign minister) and, of course, the Moscow Ensemble, with “Swan Lake”. What a contrast to the shadows in Belarus: A beautiful country, but affected by Chernobyl. Ok, here is my short clip:
Minsk, April 26th 2009 - it’s the 23rd Chernobyl year. Minsk – the main capital of Belarus – the most Chernobyl affected country in the world. They got 72% of the Chernobyl fallout – the explosion of an atomic reactor in 1986. The Government in Belarus wants to end Chernobyl, bystrucking of villagesfrom the (no longer allowed) Radiation map. President Lukashenko even tells the people to come back into contaminated areas, although more than 2 million people are already living there.
Thank you Charter97.org for your work. The world can eyewitness how rude the Belarusian Government handles the truth of Chernobyl along with the vicitims. But they are not the only ones who try ignore the facts. The Club also consitsts of the IAEA and the CORE program.
Chernobyl is continuing to harm people and environment (scientific proven by Dr. Gennadi Milinevsky, Kiev, Anders Pape Moller CNRS and Prof. Timothy A. Mousseau, South Carolina ):
Chernobyl was the explosion of a former russian atomic reactor in 1986.
72 % of it’s fallout went down on Belarus – the most Chernobyl affected country in the world. More than 2 million people are still living there in contaminated areas. Here are Belarusian Radiation maps
The Government has build an own city around the main capital Minsk, it is called “Malinowka” – it’s like a circle around Minsk. Only for Chernobyl evacuees. The IAEA gags the WHO not to publish any other numbers about death or illness caused by Chernobyl. It’s because of a gag contract between the IAEA and the WHO – since 1959:
That’s why both say only 30 – 50 people died of Chernobyl and 5000 could die. Sources like the IPPNW (web) or the Ukrainian health minstry say: 125,000 people have died (1993) and 800,000 (according to German Federal Working Agency Chernobyl) are affected by Chernobyl. The IAEA denies every other cancer caused by radiation except thyroid cancer. This is because the IAEA is a profiteer of atomic energy: Read more about it here – IAEA and ICRP and ICRP and ALARA
Chernobyl kills invisible and continues. Chernobyl shows that atomic energy is not peaceful. Chernobyl exploded with a yield of 0,2 – 0,3 kilotons. There are atomic weapons which have a lower yield. Source: Robert Green (former British navy member) and Prof. Robert Hesketh (former physicist and atomic operant – CEGB) & Don Arnott – Hinkley Point Hearing 1988 – mentioned in the IPPNW book “Tschernobyl 1996″.
This is also international supported via CORE Program – or “How to end Chernobyl”
The Belarusian Government denies every link between illness and Chernobyl – medics can lose their jobs if they make a connection. Next to Radio Belarus in Minsk is a house where the state records thyroid illnes among belarusian people. Here are photos from April 2009:
And near this house I’ve spotted a white bus. It was from the “Chernobyl Children’s Project International” – view their great website here and watch their interesting and well made movies. Regards to Mrs. Ryan.
And now, ROSATOM - the builder of the Iranian atomic reactors builds an atomic reactor in Belarus: Atomic power crisis
ROSATOM also started a joint venture with SIEMENS (Source) – which recently left AREVA (Areva scandals here)
Olga, a young journalist from Kiev, remembers her childhood as a wonderful time: she used to live in Pripyat, a young town, full of children, mushrooms and flowers. The only problem: Pripyat is located next to the reactor of Chernobyl. At the age of eight years Olga was evacuated with her family. 22 years later she returns with her Brazilian husband to the place of her childhood, which is now a ghost town. A film about the loss of home, the second generation after Chernobyl and the question if it is still dangerous to eat daisies?
When going back from Belarus to Germany on April 16th, I passed Brest, the border City between Poland and Belarus. The track width in Russia / Belarus is 89 millimeter narrower than in Western Europe. Therefor each train which leaves Russia, need other wheels. I filmed the process on April 16th. Here is a short clip:
There is also a movie called “89 Millimeter” by German film maker Sebastian Heinzel – it’s about Belarus. More here: www.89millimeter-derfilm.de
He has also made another movie, this time about Chernobyl: Lost Paradise
And here are my other impressions from Belarus: HERE
Yesterday (April 17th) I returned from a trip to Belarus. Organized by the German Civil Initiative for a World without an Atomic Threat (based in Rottweil) and the Belarusian Fond for the Children of Chernobyl (based in Minsk). We were a group of 11 people (age range from 18 – 54), students, special need carers, translators and teachers.
The program consisted of:
A stay at the City of Brest (historical memorial), the Technician University of Brest and a meeting with Prof. Severianin who has 200 patents and showed us various pioneer projects of thermal and solar energy, and also a 2 kw/h wind energy installment. After that we went to Luninetz (a Caesium 137 contaminated region due to the reactor explosion in 1986 / Chernobyl), where we visited the school, a club for disabled children, the White Lake and many many friends.
After 2 days we went to Minsk, there we met Chernobyl survivors, a doctor who was at the site of reactor No. IV / Chernobyl, in 1986. We stayed at the National Library (even on the roof), and the IBB supported history building about the Jewish Ghetto in Minsk. In the evening we were at the re-opening of the Minsk opera. The Moscow ensemble was there with Swan Lake, the Belarusian culture minister, the Belarusian foreign minister and the Russian Culture Minister. It was an unbelievable atmosphere, so tense, so magic.
Here are the first photos, from Brest, Luninetz, Minsk, ranging from April 10th to April 17th:
More Impressions form Belarus / Minsk / Luninetz / Radiation:
