Tiden sniger sig langsomt tættere på en verden uden landminer, fremgår det af en ny rapport. Ti år tilbage omkom 32 mennesker dagligt på grund af de skjulte dræbere, sidste år faldt det daglige dødstal til 12.
JOHANNESBURG, 29 November 2012 (IRIN): The progress is documented in a report from the Landmine and Cluster Munitions Monitor (LCMM) and was launched ahead of the 12th Meeting of State Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty (MBT), which will take place on 3 December in Geneva.
The report announced that mines and explosive remnants of war had caused 4,286 casualties worldwide in 2011, the year under review. In 2011, three states – Israel, Libya and Myanmar, none of them party to the MBT – used antipersonnel mines. The use of the weapon by armed groups and militias was seen in six countries in 2011 – Afghanistan, Colombia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Thailand and Yemen – an increase over the previous year, in which the landmines use by armed groups was recorded in only four countries.
Thus far in 2012, the only state known to use antipersonnel mines has been Syria, another non-MBT signatory.
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