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Militia lifts hundreds of antipersonnel landmines but also suffers heavy losses due to landmines

In late January 2023 Kyaw Htet, the Chairman of the Karenni Democratic Front, an anti-military armed group claimed to have removed more than 700 landmines laid by the Myanmar Armed Forces near Kyun Taw village. The village sits on the road which runs between Demoso in Kayah State and Moe Read more…

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UPDATE: More landmine victims, Bangladesh-Myanmar/Burma border and in Maungdaw township from late 2022 new mine use on border.

(14 March 2023 update from December 2022) From atleast early October to early November 2022, new antipersonnel landmines were laid along the Bangladesh-Myanmar/Burma border by the Myanmar Armed Forces, and within Maungdaw by the Arakan Army. Mine Free Myanmar has learned that the new mines were laid on the in-country Read more…

By admin, 3 months1 week ago
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Press conference on 2022 Myanmar/Burma with Burmese translation

On 21 December 2022 a hybrid press conference was held for the Burmese press aton the Thai-Burma border Since the Feburary 2021 coup in Myanmar, the military created State Administration Council systematically withdrew accreditation for most national journalists, raided offices, shut down media companies and imprisoned some journalists. For those Read more…

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Panel on Mine Ban @ 25 and Myanmar – Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand

Taking up the challenge: banning landmines globally and in Myanmar was organized on the 25th Anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and the 25th Anniversary of the 1997 Ottawa Convention and held on 8 December 2022 at the Foreign Correspondents Read more…

By admin, 3 months3 months ago
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43% of townships in Myanmar now reported as contaminated by mines/ERW.

Contamination now believe to exist in all States and Regions except Naypyitaw. The United Nations Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU), in collaboration with the Landmine Monitor, has produced its 14th, annually updated map of townships with suspected contamination by antipersonnel landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW). The map is Read more…

By admin, 5 months5 months ago
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Landmine Monitor 2021 Myanmar/Burma country report launched in hybrid event

On Thursday 9 December 2021 at 09:30 Myanmar time and 10:00 Thailand time, a press conference to launch the Myanmar/Burma country report in Landmine Monitor 2021 was held. The event was hybrid with remote participation for Burmese journalist who can no longer work openly and publish online or in exile. Read more…

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