Karen women loses leg in landmine incident, Karen News, 11 July 2013 For the last 5 years, Landmine Monitor has found that the activity which is most likely to cause a mine injury for civilians in mine affected areas is going to the forest. Villagers must enter the forest to Read more…
De-mining process in Karen, Karenni areas on hold, Hintarni, 10 July 2013, Mizzima Article quotes Karen National Union Secretary, Pado Mahn Mahn, as saying that though the KNU is willing to participate in mine clearance work, they can only undertake marking and fencing for now. He is reported to have Read more…
The Landmine Monitor report, the annual report of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (1997 Nobel Peace Co-Laureate) was released in Bangkok yesterday. Included was the annual updated report on Myanmar/Burma. Globally, Myanmar/Burma is one of four states whose formal armed forces use antipersonnel mines (the others are Israel, Syria Read more…
Deadly Soil: Burma’s Enduring Landmine Tragedy: Burma News International, Blacktown, 11 June 2011 Karen National Union Vice President Saw David Thakabaw was quoted as saying that the KNLA, unlike the Burmese army, does not target civilian populations, but “If the Burma army stopped attacking our people and tried to reach Read more…
Deadly Soil: Burma’s Enduring Landmine Tragedy, Blacktown, 11 June 2011 Article written by a member of the Committee for Internally Displaced Karen People which iInterviews a member of the CIDKP Mine Risk Education program, who says, “We teach villagers how to identify mines, tell them not to touch them or Read more…