Clearance of antipersonnel mines
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…
25 October 2018 at the United Nations General Assembly, Myanmar stated that its military, together with Ethnic Armed Organizations under the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), had engaged in humanitarian demining in Kayin State. The representative of Myanmar went on to state that since 2011 more than 36,000 landmines and explosive Read more…
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…
Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported on 27 December that the Southern Theater Command of the People’s Liberation Army launched ’emergency’ mine clearance along the border with Myanmar. This border area is adjacent to Muse Township in Myanmar, which saw a very high number of landmine casualties during the previous Read more…
Humanitarian Demining organizations Halo Trust, Mines Advisory Group and Norwegian People’s Aid released the Mine Action Review: Clearing the Mines 2018, a joint survey by humanitarian mine clearance organizations which ranks countries efforts to eradicate the threat of landmines within their borders. This is the fifth report to rank national Read more…