Campaign news, reports on the ICBL, interviews with the ICBL
Myanmar/Burma continues to produce the World’s Largest Landmine Victims Pa Hae Po arrives after a difficult trip from the Burma-Thai border at the FAE Hospital in Lampang, northern Thailand. September 2011. Photo: Friends of the Asian Elephant Halt Mine Use in Burma, 30 September 2011 On 3 August 2010 an Read more…
Agence France Presse, Danger underfoot in Myanmar war zones, Daniel Rook Article interviews two mine victims from Karen State of Burma, both of whom were receiving assistance at Mae Tao Clinic on the Burma/Thai border. Also interviews with Landmine Monitor and Mae Tao Clinic prosthetic technician. Article can be accessed Read more…
In recent years, Myanmar/Burma is the only country where there has been confirmed, regular use of antipersonnel mines by government forces. During an ICBL mission to the country in February and March of 2011, former General Thura Tin Oo, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces (known under its Burmese Read more…
In June 2010 the ICBL submitted a stakeholder document to the Universal Periodic Review for Myanmar to the Human Rights Commission summarizing reporting over the past 10 years of the Monitor on the use of forced labor for mine clearance/detonation and recommended “an immediate halt to the use of antipersonnel Read more…
Mizzima News, Land mine use in Burma Thursday, 10 March 2011 Q&A with Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan from the International Campaign to Ban Landmines regarding the movement’s engagement with Myanmar/Burma and the status of the landmine crisis there. URL: http://www.mizzima.com/edop/interview/4993-land-mine-use-in-burma.html