REFERENCE: Point 13: The Joint Demining Corp (Part II)

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https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-land-mines-757-years-reversal-russian-military-counteroffensive-deminer-2023-7

But several experts told The Post that the amount of contaminated land in Ukraine is so massive that it could take close to 500 demining teams and 757 years to finish the work. And the World Bank estimated that the demining work could exceed $37 billion through 2033.

 

https://www.csce.gov/international-impact/events/demining-ukraine

Humanitarian demining will be integral to recovery and reconstruction efforts across Ukraine. As Ukrainian forces liberate territory in the east and south, landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) pose an enormous challenge. In one day, Government of Ukraine explosive ordnance disposal teams removed nearly 1,500 explosive items including mines from the Kherson region alone. Russian forces have also planted victim-activated booby-traps as they retreated from positions taken during the initial phase of the invasion. Agricultural production is further affected by landmines in fields and on rural roads as well as UXO, making an estimated ten percent of Ukraine’s farmland unserviceable.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_bombing_of_Cambodia

US bombing of Cambodia may refer to: Operation Menu (1969-1970), Operation Freedom Deal (1970-1973).

 

https://www.voanews.com/a/east-asia-pacific_cambodia-expects-be-landmine-free-within-5-years/6197569.html

He said they would be deployed mainly along the northwest Cambodian-Thai border, where the Khmer Rouge retreated following the 1979 Vietnamese incursion. That military intervention ended Pol Pot’s reign of terror, but a civil war persisted, and the frontier was heavily mined until the war ended in 1998.

 

https://cmac.gov.kh/en/

Cambodia Mine Action Center.

 

https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-receives-aid-demining

The Chinese government on January 19 (2021) provided around $1 million worth of equipments for mine action in Cambodia. The aid came as Cambodia launched the National Mine Action Strategy 2018-2025.

 

https://kh.usembassy.gov/u-s-embassy-announces-demining-tender/

The United States has spent more than $131 million over the past two decades to locate and remediate not only unexploded ordnance of U.S. origin in Cambodia’s east, but also the Chinese, Vietnamese, and Soviet landmines in the rest of the country that account for about 90 percent of casualties caused by war remnants.

 

https://thediplomat.com/2022/11/cambodia-to-send-deminers-to-help-train-ukrainians/

Heng Ratana, director general of the Cambodian Mine Action Center, said in a Facebook post that after consultation with its Japanese partners, his agency would send its first team to Ukraine in early December, and a second team may be sent in the first quarter of next year. Zelenskyy welcomed the offer of deminers, and he and Hun Sen agreed to appoint ambassadors to each other’s country, the ministry statement said.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mine_clearance_organization

A mine clearance organization, or demining organization, is an organization involved in the removal of landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) for military, humanitarian, or commercial reasons. Demining includes mine clearance (actual removal and destruction of landmines/UXO from the ground), as well as surveying, mapping and marking of hazardous areas.

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-pivotal-mission-in-ukraines-counteroffensive-hunting-for-mines-78197558

A Russian manual dated 2023 and obtained by a Ukrainian military officer set out guidelines for using mines to thwart Ukrainian mechanized columns. Some antitank mines are to be laid without camouflage to divert Ukrainian forces into areas where hidden mines are placed. Others should be planted in clusters beside obstacles such as disabled vehicles and destroyed tracts of road to ensnare Ukrainian forces attempting to bypass them. Mine-clearing equipment was included in a $60 million package of military aid the U.S. provided to Ukraine last year.

 

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/06/15/ukraine-russian-landmine-use-endangers-civilians

Russian forces are using landmines in Ukraine that are causing civilian casualties and suffering, as well as disrupting food production, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Russia is the only party to the conflict known to have used banned antipersonnel mines, while both Russia and Ukraine have used anti-vehicle mines.

 

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/01/31/ukraine-banned-landmines-harm-civilians

Human Rights Watch documented numerous cases in which rockets carrying PFM antipersonnel mines, also called “butterfly mines” or “petal mines,” were fired into Russian-occupied areas near Russian military facilities. Ukraine is a state party to the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, which prohibits any use of antipersonnel mines.

 

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