He said, that in the Minsk area the mortality among teens was higher in 1991, than in high irradiated areas. Might be right in absolute numbers, but he “forgot” one thing: Belarus began evacuating people in 1990, 4 years after the Chernobyl explosions, to Minsk. There they build a new city around the city, called “Malinovka”. So, all irradiated people are living there. They are suffering because of chronic, internal radiation, by irradiated food they ate after 1986. That’s probably the reason why the numbers are high(er) in Minsk. Tens of Thousands live in Malinova.
Dr. Okeanov attended the meeting of the Fund “For the Children of Chernobyl”, one of the first civil Chernobyl NGOs, which made the cry of the Chernobyl children public. Shortly after, Dr. Okeanov attended the IAEA Chernobyl meeting in Vienna, also in 1996. There he mentioned nothing about the data above, nothing about increaded children and teenage morbidity by Chernobyl. Instead his boss, president Lukashenko encouraged people to return to irradiated areas, in the sense of the IAEA / atomic industry. More about this scandal here: http://tekknorg.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/japan-goes-the-same-way-as-belarus-dictatorship-a-deep-insight/
Collection of Interesting Data Published in Various Documents CHERNOBYL
Okeanov is also mentioned here: http://www.chernobylcongress.org/fileadmin/user_upload/pdfs/fairlie.pdf page 17 and here: http://www.chernobylreport.org/torch.pdf – quote “Using data for cleanup workers from the Belarus National Cancer Registry, Okeanov et al (2004) compared baseline incidence rates for overall cancer and various cancers between 1976-85 with those between 1990-2000. An average 40% increase in cancer incidence was observed in all regions with the most pronounced increase in the most contaminated region.” – page 55
Chronic Cs-137 incorporation in children’s organs – Y. I. Bandazhevsky “Schoolchildren in contaminated areas received radiologically clean food free of charge in school canteens and spent a month in a sanatorium, in a clean environment, each year. For reasons of economy the annual sanatorium stay has been shortened, and communities in some contaminated areas have been classified as “clean”, thus ending the supply of clean food from the state.”: http://www.smw.ch/docs/pdf200x/2003/35/smw-10226.PDF – just like in JAPAN NOW:www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq4JG9ULVNE
About the Fund: http://www.civilsoc.org/nisorgs/belarus/chornbel.htm – The Fund sent more than 300,000 Chernobyl Children from Belarus for Recreation Stays into Countries all over the world, and helped 2000,000 belarusian people – this might be one reason why the officials, the belarusian government and it’s authoritarian ruler president Lukashenko is after them. They have to move from house to house, because they lose their legal address – one of many strategies of attrition of Belarusian state.
