A meeting was held in Nay Pyi Taw to discuss the need for mine clearance, but did not discuss implementation of a landmine ban. After the meeting, this week, in an interview with the Myanmar Times, U Tun Zaw, Deputy Director General of the Department of Disaster Management was quoted Read more…
At the end of November, Bangladesh and Myanmar both sent delegations to the 4th Review Conference of the Mine Ban Treaty. At the meeting, Bangladesh urged, “Myanmar to impose moratorium on the use, production and transfer of anti-personnel mines.” Bangladesh continued, “We also urge Myanmar to continue its work on 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…
The 2019 Landmine Monitor Myanmar/Burma country profile was presented to the press at the Taw-Win Rose Garden, in Bahan Township, Yangon Thursday morning 19 December 2019. Hard copies of the report in Burmese language were available, and the press conference was in English, Burmese in closed captions. Almost 1600 people Read more…
MM2 antipersonnel landmines claimed to have been seized by the Shan StateArmy – South. In an RCSS associated website, they claim that the mines were lifted in late November 2019, and alleget that they had been placed by Tatmadaw’s brigade 99 near Wan Wah village of Murng Mu region of 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…