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Chernobyl expos� scientist gets 8 yrs in labour camp
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July 22 2001 EASTERN EUROPE
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/07/22/stifgneeu03001.html
Chernobyl expos� scientist is jailed
Peter Conradi
Lukashenko: dodging truth
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A LEADING Belarussian scientist who tried to highlight the disastrous
effects of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster on the health of the
country's children has been sentenced to eight years in a labour camp.
The jailing of Yuri Bandazhevsky, the former dean of the medical institute
in the southern city of Gomel, appears to be part of a long-running campaign
by President Alexander Lukashenko to play down the consequences of the
world's worst nuclear accident.
Lukashenko presides over arguably Europe's most repressive regime. Reviled
in the West, he was accused by two top former officials last week of helping
to set up a death squad blamed for the disappearance of four opposition
politicians in the past two years.
Bandazhevsky was convicted by a military court, ostensibly of taking bribes
in exchange for college admission. He denied the corruption charge but,
under Belarussian law, has no right of appeal. His family fears for his
health as jail food is virtually inedible and he is receiving no medical
attention for a stomach ulcer.
Amnesty International and other human rights groups monitoring the case said
his conviction was linked to work aimed at establishing the full extent of
damage caused by Chernobyl.
Human rights campaigners say the catalyst for Bandazhevsky's arrest was a
study of children close to Gomel, 80 miles northeast of the Chernobyl plant.
It found that 80% of children who had been exposed to the highest levels of
radiation had irregular heart rhythms and other cardiac disorders which, in
many cases, proved fatal.
"He has been breaking new ground," said Solange Fernex, a former French MEP
and head of a group campaigning against the conviction. "Nobody has been
able to carry out the number of autopsies he has done to show the effect of
radiation on people's organs."
Belarus was especially badly hit by the Chernobyl accident. As much as 23%
of the land was contaminated by the radioactive cloud, and some 500,000
children and nearly 2m adults are believed to live in the worst affected
areas.
Lukashenko, who took to the streets of Minsk earlier this month on inline
skates for Belarus's independence day, ahead of a re-election battle in
September, has urged the international community to help with the clean-up.
At home, however, he has refused to acknowledge the extent of the damage
caused.
Vasily Nesterenko, the director of the Belarussian institute for radiation
security, said Bandazhevsky had been arrested soon after sending Lukashenko
a letter complaining about the handling of the clean-up. "He was jailed
because the health ministry does not like his findings," Nesterenko said.
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