samoselyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Samosely (Belarusian: самасёлы, Russian: самосёлы, Ukrainian: самосели — "self-settlers") are illegal residents of the 30 kilometer Zone of Alienation surrounding the most heavily contaminated areas near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Belarus and Ukraine. The zone contains a number of abandoned towns and villages whose current population is made up of people who either refused to evacuate the area or secretly resetled in the relatively unprotected region after it was quardened off. The majority of the samosely are elderly people who made their home in the area prior to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, although some are disaffected settlers from outside the region. When the population was evacuated, they were initially told they could return in a few days, and many faced descrimination in areas of government resettlement. As of 2009, there are thought to be less than 400 remaining samosely of an earlier population estimated at over ten thousand. Most are concentrated in the town of Chernobyl itself, with about half the population dispersed in other villages throughout the zone. Besides the samosely, other visitors to the area include around 6000, mostly illegal, tourists per year.