The World Health Organization has written, that local health facilities in mine affected countries must assure, “… an adequate health-care response, both immediate (e.g. acute trauma care and surgery) and long-term (e.g. rehabilitation), to the physical and psychological trauma of Read more…
In late May 2019, the Irrawaddy reported that one police sergeant was seriously injured during mine clearance training, and ten other police officers received minor injuries. The news quoted Brig-Gen Zaw Min Tun, secretary and spokesperson of the military’s Tatmadaw Read more…
Since mid-October 2018 several civilians have been injured by improvised antipersonnel landmines, apparently newly laid. The incidents have occurred in an area under administration of both the Karen National Union (KNU) and the New Mon State Party (NMSP). The most Read more…
Since mid-2018, the Arakan Army has been publishing photographs of antipersonnel landmines, and other weapons, which it claims to have captured from the Tatmadaw. The mines within the photographs conform to antipersonnel landmines manufactured by Myanmar’s Defense Products Industries or Read more…
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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 Read more…