Sri Lanka's demining process 98% complete - Army

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Thu, Aug 28, 2014, 11:46 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Aug 28, Colombo: The demining of Sri Lanka's Northern and Eastern Provinces is nearing completion and 98 percent of the areas that were mined during the armed conflict are now free for public's use while the demining in the remaining areas is progressing fast, the Director of the Media Centre of Ministry of Defence and Urban Development Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya said.

more and source: http://www.colombopage.com/archive_14B/Aug28_1409206615CH.php
 
People want to be resettled in the Kilinochchi
area Muhamalai Reporting


In Sri Lanka
Updated: 12:50 GMT, Feb 10, 2015
Published: 09:43 GMT, Feb 10, 2015


Willingness to resettle 243 families in Kilinochchi are registered Muhamalai said.

Resettlement has ever allowed in the district, one of the Divisional Secretariat Division Pachchilaipalli Muhamalai area, have been undertaken to remove the ammunition.

Muhamalai area of ​​103 families or 339 persons, Italy, in the region of 39 to 10 families, 130 families in the area vempotukeni that all the records of 842 facilities.

The registered population, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu and Vavuniya districts temporarily and lived with relatives.

People will be allowed to return by the end of 2014 in the so-called Muhamalai enough ammunition is significant as to completely remove the resettlement.

The area has long been a focus of the war, the region was seen as cuniyap Region.

Currently, in the area of ​​humanitarian demining organizations involved in the operation, except mine was removed in the willingness of people, a people that resettlement was conducted.

Quelle: athavannews.com




Land mines clearing in Kilinochi Mugamalai for resettlement (01:21)

Athavan News - Published on Feb 10, 2015
Land mines clearing in Kilinochi Mugamalai for resettlement



Mugamalai = Muhamalai

The Muhamalai Forward Defence Line was the Army Defence Line separating the Sri Lankan Army and LTTE militia
in North Central Kilinochchi from South Central Jaffna. The distance between the first line of defences ranges from 200 to 600 meters. Sri Lankan soldiers captured the 1st Forward Defence Line (FDL) Mukamalaai and Kilali 20 November 2008 at about 5:00 AM, pushing the LTTE lines 800m southward.

Quelle: en.wikipedia.org
 

Witness: Picking up the Pieces (25:00)

Hochgeladen von AlJazeera English am 19.05.2011

Clearing mines in Sri-Lanka is a dangerous job, but someone has to do it.
Meet the all-female de-mining team of Sri Lanka's northern Mannar district.
 

Why clearing landmines matters - a survivor’s story

The HALO Trust - Humanitarian Landmine Removal, Am 21.07.2015 veröffentlicht


Sasikala lives in northern Sri Lanka with her two young children. During the country’s long civil war, she stepped on a landmine and lost her left leg. Her husband was killed in the fighting.

Over 300,000 people were displaced from their homes during the conflict. Sasikala’s family was one of many who had to live in a refugee camp. When they returned to their village they found that their house had been destroyed and their land was a minefield.

Watch Sasikala’s story to find out how her life was transformed once the landmines were cleared by The HALO Trust.
 
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HALO Sri Lanka: School Children Paint Lessons From Mine Risk Education

The HALO Trust - Humanitarian Landmine Removal, Am 25.04.2018 veröffentlicht


On International Mine Awareness Day 2018, 400 children filled the streets in Sri Lanka with paintings of their lessons from mine risk education.

Learn more about Yeromika and Madushan, two children who used previous encounters with unexploded bombs as inspiration for their paintings.
 

Meet the woman who's clearing the largest minefield in Sri Lanka

The Newsmakers, Am 12.02.2018 veröffentlicht


The Muhamalai minefield was once the largest in Sri Lanka. It was the forward defense line between government forces and the Tamil Tigers. Teams of deminers are working to clear the field so that villagers can return. The Newsmakers followed Inthira Piriyatharsini Ludes Nixon to hear first hand about the work she does with the Halo Trust.
 

Sri Lanka Army’s demining process in Muhumale assisted by K9 unit

Ada Derana, Am 21.10.2018 veröffentlicht
 
The Women Who Are Clearing the Minefields in Sri Lanka

Alan Taylor Mar 7, 2019

“Forty-four percent of HALO’s staff working in the minefields are female, of which 62 percent are the primary breadwinners of their family, and 37 percent have had relatives who were injured, killed, or went missing during the civil war.

Quelle + kompletter Artikel: www.theatlantic.com



The women clearing Sri Lanka's minefields - in pictures

Allison Joyce / Getty Images, Fri 8 Mar 2019 09.54 GMT

Quelle + kompletter Artikel: www.theguardian.com
 
Männer machen Krieg, Frauen beseitigen ihn – Minenräumung in Sri Lanka

Beat Grossrieder / Verena Tempelmann, 20.03.2019, 16:39 Uhr

Obwohl seit zehn Jahren Frieden herrscht, müssen die Menschen in Sri Lanka noch immer um ihr Leben fürchten – überall lauern Minen und Blindgänger. Die Fotografin Allison Joyce begleitet Frauen, die ihre Felder von den Kriegslasten befreien und mit dieser Arbeit ganze Familien ernähren.

Quelle + kompletter Artikel: www.nzz.ch
 

HALO Sri Lanka: Sasikala’s mine-free future

The HALO Trust - Humanitarian Landmine Removal, Am 17.11.2018 veröffentlicht

Sasikala lost her leg to a landmine in 1999.

Her husband died during Sri Lanka's civil war, leaving her to look after her young children on her own.

Thanks to our mine clearance, she can now make sure her children don't suffer from the consquences of war as she did.
 

60,000 landmines found and destroyed in ONE minefield in Sri Lanka | The HALO Trust

60.000 Landminen gefunden und zerstört in EINEM Minenfeld in Sri Lanka | The HALO Trust

We've now found and destroyed 60,000 anti-personnel landmines in Muhamalai minefield - a minefield three times the size of New York’s Central Park.

Wir haben jetzt 60.000 Anti-Personen Landminen gefunden und zerstört im Muhamalai Minenfeld - ein Minenfeld dreimal die Größe von New York’s Central Park.

The HALO Trust - Humanitarian Landmine Removal, 16.07.2021
 
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