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Preventing and removing landmines - a humanitarian action (Part 1)
Preventing and removing landmines - a humanitarian action (Part 1)
24/4/16
In areas of conflict or in areas
where war has receded, many ruins are still leaves, in which bombs, landmines
and explosives remnants remain and continue to cause tragic consequences.
Raising awareness and supporting mine removal is essential work to bring peace
to the "land of death".
On December 8th 2005, UN
General Assembly announced the annual 4th of April as International
Day of rising awareness and supporting mine removal. This day is an opportunity
to attract the attention of the entire community of the need for supporting the
victims of landmines and explosive remnants after war.
The member governments, the civil
society organizations of the United Nations are mobilizing to create a legal
social and economic framework to help landmine victims aentitle to their rights
and roles in social production. Member governments are also encouraged to
ratify all the tools relating to the disarmament, ensure human rights and the
rights relating to landmines, explosive remnants of war and survivors after suffering
the ravages of landmines.
Preventing landmines includes a
series of activities such as marking, localizing and fencing dangerous areas.
In addition, mine preventing activities also include assistance for victims, instructing
people how to ensure safety in the mine zone and mobilize participation in
international conventions, agreements on mine victims of war
The fight against landmines
Long after the end of the war, even
if peace was repeated, many weapons remain in the underground for many years,
even decades, causing negative effects as well as causing injuries death for
the people. It could be children and innocent civilians.
The fight against landmines does not
only aime at the sole objective of removing landmines on the ground, but also
includes a number of measures ranging from prevention of danger in mine
environment to push of a world without landmines.
In addition, the fight against
landmines not only targets at the mines but also unexploded threats which is
greater in many countries. Bombs, mortars, grenades, missiles or other devices
that could explode at any time ... At present, the programs for mine action carrying
out on an international scale all aims at the types of mines and
"explosive remnants of war", which include unexploded ordnance and
other types of " abandoned weapons " or weapons left on the ground of
the armed forces in an area.
Landmines preventing action by the
United Nations is based on five "pillars" such as: freeing the
ground; education about the risks relating to landmines; victim assistance;
destroying the remaining landmines; promoting international legal instruments.
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All comments [ 10 ]
Concern about the effects of certain conventional weapons, particularly landmines, is not new.
With the end of the Cold War and the accompanying perception of decreased nuclear threat, there has been growing attention to other weapons which have, in fact, inflicted far more casualties in the wars of the past few decades than nuclear and chemical weapons combined.
he history of landmines can be traced back to the American Civil War. But mines as they are known today were originally developed during the First World War to defend against tanks.
Humanitarian law, or the law of war, seeks to limit as much as possible destruction and injury to the civilian population during armed conflicts. The basic tenets, which apply also to landmines, say essentially that soldiers may not use any means to achieve their ends, that there are limits.
There must be a balance between military need and consequences to the civilian population - and that balance must be proportional.
If the consequences of landmine use include consideration of the life span of the weapon - which can be decades - the balance between the immediate military utility during the engagement and the long-term costs to the civilian population becomes so skewed as to make the immediate utility appear almost insignificant by comparison.
research has shown that in practice landmines are frequently employed directly against civilians, both intentionally and indiscriminately.
Evidence from a number of countries shows that mines are often used as part of deliberate military strategies designed, in direct contravention of the law of war, to spread terror among civilians and/or prevent them from producing food for themselves or enemy troops.
Landmines have been used on a massive scale since their development.
NGOs have also made significant contributions through systematic documentation of the problem of landmines
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