landmine in Myanmar

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17 November 2023
New use of landmines drives up casualties: monitor
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01 September 2023
Myanmar's shoestring deminers work with...
Armed with simple tools, a rebel unit in Myanmar is helping to clear deadly landmines...
Members of the anti-junta Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF) search for landmines planted by the Myanmar military during demining operations near Pekon township on July 11, 2023 Photo: AFP
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01 September 2023
Myanmar's landmine clearers working with...
Six men prod and poke at dense undergrowth in eastern Myanmar with rakes and hoes -- not...
Remnants from a cluster bomb attack on Mae Ka Neh in Kayin/Karen state, April 2023. Photo: KNLA
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01 September 2023
Rights groups slam Myanmar use of cluster...
A coalition of rights groups on Thursday condemned Myanmar for the army's renewed use of...
Land mine. Photo: Wikipedia
23 February 2023
Myanmar landmine casualties surge two years after...
Landmines and unexploded munitions injured or killed more than one person every day in...
Akbar Khan, a 52-year-old self-described 'extreme fossil in amber hunter' inspecting a piece of honey-coloured fossilised tree sap from Kachin State in Myanmar at his streetside stall in Bangkok. Photo: AFP
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15 February 2022
Paleontologists find 110-million-year-old new...
Paleontologists are excited by the 110-million-year-old new species of lizard in a piece...
(File) A Rohingya refugee children’s plays on the makeshift camp in Ukhia, Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh, 30 July 2020. Photo: EPA
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26 October 2020
Refugee death highlights Myanmar mine use
A Rohingya boy from a refugee camp in Bangladesh has been killed by a landmine inside...
Photo: Shar Htet Paing (aka) Ko Myo
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28 November 2019
German tourist killed in Myanmar landmine blast
A German tourist was killed and an Argentine woman injured in a landmine explosion in...