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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…
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…
On 10 January, the Myanmar/Burma country report in the 2017 Landmine Monitor Report Global Report was presented to the Myanmar Press at a Press Conference in Yangon. Hard copies of the report, in Burmese language were available to journalists. The Myanmar/Burma country report is one country report within the Landmine Read more…
On 27 December, the Myanmar/Burma country report in the 2016 Landmine Monitor Report Global Report, was presented to the Myanmar Press at a Press Conference. The following are some of the slides based on information within the global Read more…
Landmine Monitor 2015 Myanmar/Burma country report released at press conference in Yangon On 25 November 2015, a press conference to launch the Burmese translation of the Myanmar/Burma country report in Landmine & Cluster Munition Monitor 2014 took place in Yangon. The audio record of the press conference is available here. Read more…
The United Nations Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU) has produced an updated map of townships with suspected landmine hazard from Landmine Monitor 2015 data. The map is cumulative, and highlights townships in which Landmine Monitor has discovered landmine contamination through casualty reports or other reports of mined areas since 2007. Read more…