ဖံုးကြယ္ေနသည့္ အႏၲရာယ္မ်ား

By Simon Ingram - ၂၀၁၇ ခုႏွစ္၊ ေမလ

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ ေျမျမွဳပ္မိုင္းမ်ား ႏွင့္ မေပါက္ကြဲေသးသည့္ လက္နက္ခဲယမ္းမ်ားသည္ ကေလးငယ္မ်ားအတြက္ အသက္ေသဆံုးရျခင္း ႏွင့္ ထိခုိက္ဒဏ္ရာရ ၿခင္း အႏၱရာယ္ႏွင့္ ေန႔စဥ္ၾကံဳေတြ႔ေနရ

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရိွ တိုင္းေဒသၾကီးႏွင့္ ျပည္နယ္ ၁၄ ခုအနက္ ၉ ခုတြင္ ဆက္လက္ျဖစ္ပြားေနသည့္၊ လြန္ခဲ႔ေသာကာလျဖစ္ခဲ႔သည့္ လက္နက္ကိုင္ပဋိပကၡမ်ားေၾကာင့္ ေျမျမွပ္မိုင္းမ်ားႏွင့္ ေပါက္ကြဲေစတတ္သည့္ စစ္လက္နက္အၾကြင္းအက်န္မ်ား ျပန္႔ႏွံ႔လွ်က္ရိွပါသည္။  ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသည္ ကမၻာေပၚတြင္မို္င္းေၾကာင့္ ထိခိုက္ဒဏ္ရာရေသဆံုးသည့္ႏွဳန္းအျမင့္ဆံုးႏိုင္ငံတစ္ခုျဖစ္ပါသည္။ မိုင္းအႏၲရာယ္တားဆီး ကာကြယ္ေရး အဖြဲ႔၏ စာရင္းမ်ားအရ မိုင္းထိခိုက္ဒဏ္ရာရေသဆံုးမဳွသည္ သံုးရက္တစ္ၾကိမ္ျဖစ္ပြားေနျပီး သံုးေယာက္တြင္တစ္ေယာက္ သည္ကေလးသူငယ္မ်ားျဖစ္ပါသည္။

Hidden dangers

By Simon Ingram - May 2017

In Myanmar, landmines and unexploded ordnance present a daily risk of injury or death for children

Nine of Myanmar’s 14 States and Regions are contaminated with landmines and explosive remnants of war both from ongoing and past conflicts. The country has some of the highest mine accident rates in the world. On average, every three days a person is a victim of landmines, according to Myanmar’s Mine Risk Working Group. One out of every three victims is a child.

Mine Action in Kachin State

Children helping to prepare a display at Mine Action Day
©UNICEF Myanmar/2014/Phyusin Ngwethaw

Kachin State, 4 April 2014 - Landmines and explosive remnants of war injure and kill people every day around the world. Harmful devices left behind from times of conflict or placed intentionally continue to cause harm to vulnerable populations, including women and children. They also deny access to land that could be used for agriculture and livelihoods, inhibit the delivery of humanitarian assistance, and endanger refugees and internally displaced persons. Unfortunately this is also the case in Myanmar.