Residents of Chin State of Myanmar fled to the Indian State of Mizoram due to armed conflict between the Arakan Army and the Tatmadaw (Myanmar Army). Landmines were laid by either one of the combatants or both resulting in casualties on the Myanmar-India border in January and February 2018 (see previous post). Mizo authorities have […]
A news report states that the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement (MSWRR) plans to set up a reserve fund for disabled people as part of the Disabilities Law enacted in 2015.
Minister U Win Myat Aye speaking before the Amyotha Hluttaw on the 29 January stated that MSWRR was presently unable to set […]
On 10 January, the Myanmar/Burma country report in the 2017 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 […]
Landmine Monitor determined that some new mines were laid by government forces on the Myanmar side of the border.
The following videos were provided from cell phone recordings taken by a Myanmar national who fled northern Rakhine State for Bangladesh.
The cellphone video was provided to the Monitor by Frontier Myanmar journal. All are […]
The United Nations Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU) has produced its 6th updated map of townships with suspected landmine contamination from Landmine Monitor 2017 data.
The map shows in shaded relief cumulative townships in which Landmine Monitor has discovered landmine contamination through casualty reports or other reports of mined areas, since 2007.
Casualty information on […]
Humanitarian Demining organizations Halo Trust, Mines Advisory Group and Norwegian People’s Aid released Clearing the Mines 2017, a joint survey by humanitarian mine clearance organizations which ranks countries efforts to eradicate the threat of landmines within their borders. This is the fourth report to rank national mine clearance efforts.
The report states: Myanmar is […]
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