LANDMINES
An estimated 110 million landmines are strewn across our planet in more than 70 countries. One hundred million of these landmines are small anti-personnel mines that cannot distinguish between the combat boots of a soldier and the footfall of an innocent child. Landmines kill and wound over 20,000 people each year. The most heavily mine-affected countries in the world, according to a UN study, are: Afghanistan, Angola, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cambodia, Croatia, Eritrea, Iraq, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, Nicaragua and Sudan. These 12 countries together account for almost 50 percent of the landmines currently deployed in the world and also suffer the highest number of landmines casualities.NOTE: Click on any image below for a larger JPEG image.
Mines
A United Nation decal and a Demining decal.
(UN/DPI Photo# 207054C)
A landmine in Afghanistan. Nearly two decades after Afghanistan plunged into civil war, it is still one of the most severely mine-affected countries in the world.
(UN/DPI Photo# 211069C)
Close-up of a mine exposed by the shifting
sands of the desert.
(UN/DPI Photo# 158198C)
Landmines in the desert.
(UN/DPI Photo# 158233C)
Landmines in the desert.
(UN/DPI Photo# 158197C)
Searching for Mines
Norwegian soldiers from the United Nations Interim
Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) searching for mines.
(UN/DPI Photo# 157921C)
A United Nations peace-keeping soldier from Pakistan demonstrating the use of a mine detector at a demining school set up to train local armed forces.
(UN/DPI Photo# 186062C)
A Swedish peace-keeping soldier participating in a mine clearing exercise at a United Nations training camp.
(UN/DPI Photo# 159520C)
Croatian and Serbian demining teams work together to clear mines in Lipovac, Croatia.
(UN/DPI Photo# 187845C)
A member of the demining team in Croatia searching for mines in Lipovac.
(UN/DPI Photo# 187843C)
A demining team in Lipovac, Croatia, locates an undestroyed mine.
(UN/DPI Photo# 187844C)
A Slovakian deminer from the United Nations Mission in Eritrea and Ethiopia using a remote control device to operate a demining fleil in July 2001.
(UN/DPI Photo# 207053C by Jorge Aramburu)
A Slovakian deminer, part of the United Nations Mission in Eritrea and Ethiopia, at work.
(UN/DPI Photo# 207055C by Jorge Aramburu)
Landmine Victims
A young girl recovering in an Iraqi hospital
after having lost her hand in a landmine
explosion.
(UN/DPI Photo# 158314C)
A boy, injured from a mine explosion in Armenia.(UN/DPI Photo# 187643C)
A boy who lost his hand after picking up a mine.
(UN/DPI Photo# 187555C)
A soldier at Tone Babi, Cambodia, who lost
his legs in a landmine explosion.
(UN/DPI Photo# 186410C)
Rehabilitation
A mine victim with his son at a rehabilitation
centre in Kandal Province, Cambodia.
(UN/DPI Photo# 186501C)
A man practices walking on his prosthetic leg
at a rehabilitation centre.
(UN/DPI Photo# 159505C)
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