Adi Roche

A team of eminent scientists at the Chernobyl exclusion zone wrote of their fears on Thursday in an email to CCI, a non-profit that works with children and ...

“Given Ireland is a proud neutral nation and we have a seat on the security council, we should become champions of peace. However, it was important now that the “power of diplomacy” rose to the challenge of bringing a ceasefire in Ukraine. A decision was made to bring the mission forward by five months, Ms Roche said, to help children who are suffering from a range of heart defects, including the life-threatening condition called “Chernobyl heart”. The scientists were remaining there to continue their research and asked that CCI highlight the issue and “help these people suffering from radioactive effects and the situation they find themselves in as a result of hostilities.” Adi Roche urged the Irish Government to lobby the International Court of Justice at The Hague to “immediately declare a new protocol to the Hague Convention on the conduct of war that any attack on a nuclear facility be declared a major war crime with maximum penalties”. A team of eminent scientists at the Chernobyl exclusion zone wrote of their fears on Thursday in an email to CCI, a non-profit that works with children and communities that continue to be affected by the outcome of the 1986 Chernobyl accident.