Groups providing assistance to casualties
4 April was the UN International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action New UN Secretary General, António Gueterres, stated in his first message on this annual UN International Day that, “peace is incomplete without mine removal’. On 4th April, the Acting Director-General of the Ministry of Social Read more…
Prior to today, there has never been an official figure provided by a government of Myanmar regarding how many people are injured or killed by landmines during a year. The figure provided by the Ministry of Health today is for deaths due to encounters with landmines, and covers the period Read more…
The Myanmar Police were reported to have recorded 90 landmine casualties in Kachin State during 2015, according to a Myanmar Eleven news report. 79 of the victims were injured but survived, 11 of them died. The news report interviewed a local activist from Sarmaw village tract, who stated that in Read more…
The 4 April 2015 International Day of Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action event in Yangon was attended for the first time by a key government official. Myint Swe, Chief Minister of Yangon Region gave the keynote speech. In his speech Myint Swe emphasized that the Government had been pursuing Read more…
Anti-Land Mine Activity: Raising Awareness Through Music, MITV News, 18 March 2015 Equality Myanmar has launched a multi-artist awareness raising music video on landmine survivors in Myanmar’s border areas. Aung Myo Min described the purpose of the effort was, “raise the awareness of the danger of the land mine particularly Read more…
German Federal Foreign Office Funds Prostheses Assistance to Landmine Victims in Eastern Myanmar/Burma, Relief Web, 10 December 2014. Germany is providing financial support for a mobile prosthetic production project through 3 NGOs in eastern Myanmar/Burma. The project follows on a previous one to build the prosthetic production and physiotherapy capacity Read more…