I can’t tell you how great it feels when I finish clearing a mined area.” says Marta.Īli, Shoresh, Tong and Marta are four of a number of Handicap International deminers whose day job is to save lives. Like many people, violence had a big impact on us. I saw children die for a war that wasn’t theirs. I saw people maimed by mines when I was growing up. “When I was fourteen I stumbled on a mine as I was walking through my village. She now oversees mine clearance operations in Colombia for Handicap International. Marta, in Colombia, has never forgotten a lucky escape she had when she was a teenager. Or Shoresh in Iraq and Tong in Laos who respectively destroyed 190 and 115 mines in 7 years, saving hundreds of lives.
So far he helped destroy 700 mines, saving 700 lives. Inspiring staff like Ali who has been working in Lebanon for 10 years. They pose exactly the same threat as anti-personnel mines,” explains Aleema Shivji Executive Director of Handicap International UKĮvery day, inspiring staff from Handicap International are demining the countries most affected by explosive remnants of war. These explosive remnants continue to put civilian lives at risk long after fighting or a conflict is over. “Bombing and shelling not only has a devastating impact during an attack, these weapons also leave behind large quantities of explosive remnants of war, since a significant proportion of weapons do not explode on impact. This depressing finding is directly linked to the intensive use in recent conflicts in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine and elsewhere of explosive weapons in populated areas. The vast majority of people killed and injured in these attacks were civilians.
Published last November, the Landmine Monitor reported a record increase in the number of casualties of mines and explosive remnants of war (ERW), up 75% from 2014.
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