News reports on new casualties in Myanmar/Burma
In a disturbing development the Landmine Monitor is finding evidence of a battery-less antipersonnel mine being manufactured by atleast one ethnic armed organization. Since mid-2020 Landmine Monitor has received detailed photographs of a new type of locally made antipersonnel, fragmentation, mine which does not rely on a battery and will Read more…
Contamination Map The United Nations Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU), in collaboration with the Landmine Monitor, has produced its 10th updated contamination map . The map is based on townships in which credible reports of antipersonnel landmine contamination have been recorded by the Landmine Monitor from 1999 – 2020. The Read more…
UNICEF and the Mine Risk Education Working Group (MRWG) have released an infographic detailing casualties caused by Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) in Myanmar, including landmines. The graphic provides data on 146 casualties during the first half of the year. 23% of the casualties resulted in death. 53% of their Read more…
Contamination Map The United Nations Myanmar Information Management Unit in collaboration with the Landmine Monitor has produced its 9th updated contamination map based on townships in which credible reports of antipersonnel landmine contamination have been recorded by the Landmine Monitor from 1999 – 2019. The map also graphically maps casualties Read more…
At the Fourth Review Conference of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, held in Oslo Norway, Myanmar was singled out by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines as the only country which was using antipersonnel landmines. During the same week as the conference, a German man was killed, and an Argentinian Read more…
The Landmine Monitor Report 2019 out today reveals that state military forces in Myanmar were the only government forces are using antipersonnel landmines. This follows a similar finding for 2018. Non-state armed groups were identified as using antipersonnel landmines in six countries, including Myanmar. An increase in armed conflict in Read more…