News reports on new casualties in Myanmar/Burma
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 True News Information Team, who said the training was conducted 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 recent injury occured 23 April 2019 when a 63 year Read more…
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 Read more…
Atrocity/forced labour mine clearance[1] Use of human beings to clear mines for a military patrol is a grave violation against International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights Law and revolts the dictates of pubic conscience. The activity is unreservedly condemned by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines as an affront to Read more…
On 22 June 2018 the United Nations Myanmar Information Management Unit (UN MIMU) released an infographic summarizing Landmine Monitor reporting on Myanmar/Burma over the past decade. The 2018 infographic is available in Burmese and English versions. Key illustrations: Myanmar/Burma has 2nd highest cumulative casualty rate for the past decade, when Read more…
Two youths in a group of twelve picking mushrooms in northern Myawaddy Township injured, one fatally, by a landmine. The group reportedly crossed the border opposite Phop Phra district of the northern province of Tak Province of Thailand. Both were transported back to Thailand for treatment at Phop Phra District Read more…