Friday, 9 December 2011

Strikes of Chornobyl liquidators.

Ukrainian Parliament decided to abolish privileges since 2012 year for 16 population's categories, including saviours of Chornobyl disaster on April 26th, 1986. That's why Chornobyl saviours began mass strikes in many Ukrainian cities. On November 27th 69-year-old Hennadiy Konoplyov, former miner and member of Donetsk protest against abolition of privileges for 16 people's categories, died during protest's dispersing, made by police. On November 30th in Kyiv Chornobyl liquidators began a starvation ahead the building of Parliament with a request to leave their privileges (additional payments). These saviours, people, who made worse their healths during a liquidation of the accident on Chornobyl atomic electrostation in 1986, so they need their privileges just to be able to buy medicine for themselves and to bring a few money in their families like its heads. If in the past Chornobyl liquidators could imagine, that after their hard work of disaster's liquidation they will not have state payments to buy medicine in the future, maybe they wouldn't go to liquidate Chornobyl accident. But...Who will ask simple people what they want? Soviet power didn't think about that people and just sent them as liquidatiors, though they often weren't saviours or liquidators by their profession. And present Ukrainian power also doesn't think about Chornobyl saviours, their healths and families. State power says: "There are no money for you". But at the same time Parliament's deputies don't want to abolish any privileges for themselves.
On December 9th Chornobyl liquidators protesting ahead Parliament have already stopped their starvations because of bad healths of many protestants and have gone home in the different Ukrainian cities from where they are. But they'll continue to protest against abolition of their state payments, because they have right to these payments and also haven't another way except a strike.

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