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    Tagged: landmines

    Conflict Lead Story News Shan

    5 injured in Shan State landmine blast

    As the men have little money to pay hospital fees, donations have been raised among the local Kachin community.

    Lead Story News Rakhine Rohingya

    Landmines ‘apparently targeting’ military convoys in Rakhine

    State media says one person was injured when military trucks hit landmines in Burma’s troubled Rakhine State this week.

    Karen Lead Story News Refugees

    Karen IDPs voice fears of returning home

    IDPs at E Htu Hta camp are calling for the withdrawal of Burmese military forces from the area, as well as a campaign to clear landmines.

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    Lead Story News

    Nearly $6m budgeted for landmine initiatives in 2017

    The UN children’s agency (UNICEF) and Burma’s government reiterated their goal of spending $5.9 million this year on landmine risk education, victims’ assistance, capacity-building and other related projects as a ceremony was held yesterday to mark International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action.

    Conflict Lead Story News

    Burmese govt named & shamed as landmine user

    Aung San Suu Kyi’s government is named in an international report as one of the few nations to actively plant landmines over the past year.

    Conflict Karen Lead Story News

    Karen IDPs ‘not safe to go home yet’ due to landmines

    “We are currently clearing the area of landmines, but it is a challenge as they are scattered everywhere,” said BGF officer Naing Maung Zaw.

    Conflict Lead Story News

    Karen State govt hosts landmine workshop

    A workshop on the dangers of landmines is being held in the Karen State capital Hpa-an for the first time under arrangement by the regional government.

    Conflict Kachin Lead Story News

    Landmine kills Kachin villager

    One person was killed and another injured when a landmine exploded near a village in Kachin State.

    Lead Story News Peace Process Shan

    300 Hsipaw IDPs returning home

    “The IDPs are being repatriated as calm gradually returns to the area,” a Shan MP tells DVB.

    Lead Story News

    Landmine in Shan State kills two, injures one

    The incident occurred just days after two tourists and their guide were injured by a landmine in the same area.

    Conflict Lead Story News Travel & Tourism

    Two tourists, guide injured by landmine in Shan State

    The incident occurred in an area where rival ethnic armed groups engaged in major clashes earlier this year.

    Conflict Feature Lead Story Military News

    The hidden menace of landmines continues to haunt Burma’s conflict zones

    Across Burma, landmines pose a daily threat, but five years after the transition to democracy began, there is still no official clearance programme.

    Fresh calls to rid Burma of landmine scourge video

    Lead Story News Video

    Fresh calls to rid Burma of landmine scourge

    A new report from the the International Campaign to Ban Landmines has slammed the Burmese government for its refusal to begin the long process of mine clearance in one of the most polluted nations on earth.

    Conflict Ethnic issues Lead Story News

    Landmine victims down, but Burma still produces: ICBL

    Incidents involving landmines decreased in 2014, says ICBL, both in Burma and worldwide. However, the Burmese govt is still listed as one of the last manufacturers.

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News

    Pa-Oh army pledges to protect children

    The Pa-Oh National Liberation Army (PNLA) pledged to protect children from the effects of armed conflict by signing a “Deed of Commitment” on 17 November.

    In eastern Burma, landmines remain an invisible curse to farmers video

    Lead Story News Politics Video

    In eastern Burma, landmines remain an invisible curse to farmers

    Local residents in Karenni State are demanding that the government begin clearing the landscape of landmines placed around Lawpita electricity towers.

    Landmine victims turn their hand to making legs video

    Ethnic issues Health Lead Story Video

    Landmine victims turn their hand to making legs

    Decades of armed conflict in Burma make it one of the worst hit countries for landmines. People living close to the border are the most severely affected. But five years ago a prosthetics factory opened in Loikaw, Karenni state. And all of the people working at the factory are landmine victims themselves.

    The long walk to recovery video

    Video

    The long walk to recovery

    Tin Tin Aung was arrested in 2008, charged with sedition and unlawful association and sentenced to five years in Burma’s notorious Insein prison. He suffered physical and mental torture before[…]

    Landmines still take toll in Burma video

    Video

    Landmines still take toll in Burma

    More than 3,000 people have been killed or injured by landmines in Burma since 1999. One of the worst-affected areas is the border between Thailand and Burma. Those injured are[…]

    Analysis

    Cautious hope for Burma’s ‘second-class citizens’

    Burma’s recent accession to the Convention on the Rights of Disabled People is a sign that the government may finally begin to address the needs of the disabled, including the thousands of landmine victims

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    Clinic of heroes

    The Mae Tao clinic in the Thai border town of Mae Sot each year treats thousands of victims of Burma’s civil war. Many arrive there from deep inside the Karen[…]

    Health News

    Suu Kyi’s party calls for landmine ban

    National League for Democracy breaks silence on landmines as rights groups fear returning Karen refugees are at high risk of injury or death

    News Politics

    Landmine casualties in Burma double

    July 16, 2009 (DVB), The number of people killed by landmines in Burma has increased in the last year while survivors face difficulties receiving adequate healthcare, said an anti-landmine campaign[…]

    News

    Burma urged to stop landmine use

    Apr 3, 2009 (DVB), International organisations have called for a ban on the use of landmines in Burma, which is one of only 16 states never to have ratified an[…]

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