So, some environmentalists thought, why not just let the land mines stay rather than wasting gobs of cash on high-risk demining programmes?
demining programmes were coordinated through governmental bodies such as the Croatian Mine Action Centre, which was hiring private demining companies employing 632 deminers., Croatia plans to clear all suspected minefields by 2019.
In 2012, Allan Poston, a technical adviser to the UN development programme (UNDP)'s demining team, wrote in an email that his team had found "confirmed unexploded sub-munitions" near Puthukuduyurippu, an area that had been reportedly attacked with the weapons in February 2009.
In the immediate aftermath of the war there were about 100 civilian mine casualties per year, but this gradually decreased to below ten per year through demining, mine-awareness and education programmes.
This programme involved not only demining activities, but a huge awareness raising campaign to reach the entire population, including school children around the country.
Demining NGO Apopo recruits and trains local deminers from affected communities.
In BiH there are currently 35 accredited organisations with over 3,000 deminers, 1,100 detectors, 90 dogs and 30 demining machines.
Purpose/Objective In February 2005, UNICEF requested the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) to conduct an independent evaluation of the mine risk education (MRE) programme in Ethiopia in consultation with stakeholders (see report annex 1).
The demining team was bolder than I in its movements.
The only other people on campus were members of a small demining team from the Iraqi Army.
