Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported on 27 December that the Southern Theater Command of the People’s Liberation Army launched ’emergency’ mine clearance along the border with Myanmar.
This border area is adjacent to Muse Township in Myanmar, which saw a very high number of landmine casualties during the previous year according to Landmine Monitor […]
On 19 December 2018 the United Nations Myanmar Information Management Unit (UN MIMU) released an infographic summarizing Landmine Monitor 2018 reporting on Myanmar/Burma over the past decade.
The infographic is available in Burmese and English versions.
Key illustrations: Almost 1200 landmine casualties since peace talks started; Myanmar/Burma has 3rd highest cumulative casualty rate […]
On 19 December 2018 the Myanmar/Burma country report in the 2018 Landmine Monitor Report Global Report was presented to the Myanmar Press at a Press Conference in Yangon.
Hard copies of the report, in Burmese language were available to journalists.
The Myanmar/Burma country report is one country report within the Landmine Monitor Global Report. […]
The United Nations Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU) produced on 5 December 2018 its 7th updated map of townships with suspected landmine contamination from Landmine Monitor 2018 data.
The map provides several levels of data.
In shaded relief cumulative townships in which Landmine Monitor has discovered landmine contamination through casualty reports or other reports of […]
Myanmar attended, as an observer, at the Seventeenth Meeting of States Parties to the Antipersonnel Landmine Ban Convention in Geneva in November 2018.
Myanmar made one statement at the meeting, during the session on Universalization, which is usually when governments which have yet to accede to the convention provide information on their efforts to […]
Humanitarian Demining organizations Halo Trust, Mines Advisory Group and Norwegian People’s Aid released the Mine Action Review: Clearing the Mines 2018, a joint survey by humanitarian mine clearance organizations which ranks countries efforts to eradicate the threat of landmines within their borders. This is the fifth report to rank national mine clearance efforts.
The […]
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