Myanmar has overtaken Syria as the country with the highest number of casualties from landmines and explosive remnants of war, a report has found.



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Myanmar led world in landmine victims in 2023: Monitor

Civilians, including children, bearing the brunt of the devastation, Landmine Monitor 2024 report notes

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Myanmar overtakes Syria as country with highest landmine casualties

Landmines and unexploded munitions claimed more victims in Myanmar than in any other country last year, a monitor said on Wednesday (Nov 20), warning the true toll could be double or triple its estimate of 1,000 people killed or wounded.

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Anti-personnel mines and explosive remnants of war killed or wounded 1,003 people in Myanmar in 2023.

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It was an unlucky day in the Burmese calendar, farmer Yar Swe Kyin warned her husband in July, begging him not to go out to check on their crops.Hours later he was dead, killed by one of the countless landmines laid by both sides in Myanmar's three brutal years of civil war.In the evening, "I heard an explosion from the field," she told AFP at her home in the hills of northern Shan state."I knew he had gone to that area and I was worried."She ha…

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'An inauspicious day': the landmines ruining Myanmar lives

BANGKOK: Landmines and unexploded munitions claimed more victims in Myanmar than in any other country last year, a monitor said on Wednesday, warning the true toll could be double or triple its estimate of 1,000 people killed or wounded. Decades of sporadic conflict between the military and ethnic rebel groups have left the Southeast Asian country littered with deadly land

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Myanmar led world in land mine victims in 2023: monitor

BANGKOK — Landmines and unexploded munitions claimed more victims in Myanmar than in any other country last year, a monitor said on Wednesday, with over 1,000 people killed or wounded in the country.
Decades of sporadic conflict between the military and ethnic rebel groups have left the Southeast Asian country littered with deadly landmines and munitions.
But the military's ouster of Aung San Suu Kyi's government in 2021 has turbocharged conflic…

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Myanmar led world in landmine victims in 2023: monitor

Civilians, including children, make up 84 percent of landmine casualties, with the highest numbers last year in Myanmar.

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Sharp rise recorded in landmine casualties in 2023, warns report

Landmines and unexploded munitions claimed more victims in Myanmar than in any other country last year, a monitor said on Wednesday, warning the true toll could be double or triple its estimate of 1,000…

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Number of landmine victims increased

More and more people around the world are being killed or injured by explosions from landmines. While there were still 4710 victims in 2022, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) recorded at least 5757 victims in 2023, according to the organization's annual report published on Wednesday. The ICBL also condemned the delivery of mines to Ukraine announced by the USA. According to the organization, at least 1983 people worldwide were k…

Weltweit werden immer mehr Menschen durch die Explosionen von Landminen getötet oder verletzt. Während es 2022 noch 4710 Opfer waren, verzeichnete die Internationale Kampagne für das Verbot von Landminen (ICBL) 2023 mindestens 5757 Getroffene, wie es im jährlichen Bericht der Organisation heißt, der am Mittwoch veröffentlicht wurde. Zudem verurteilte die ICBL die von den USA angekündigte Lieferung von Minen an die Ukraine.Der Organisation zufolg…

Myanmar overtakes Syria to become country with highest landmine casualties

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