Photo Credit: Mines Advisory Group
Our friends at Mines Advisory Group have written about the increase in casualties from unexploded ordnance in Cambodia, where Clear Path International has been providing victim assistance since 2001. Clear Path began in the most heavily mine impacted areas of Cambodia with vocational training programs and shipments of medical equipment to support hospitals. CPI established the Phum Seam Farmers' Cooperative and Rice Mill in 2006 to provide socio-economic and agricultural support to landmine/ERW survivors in three districts in Battambang. In 2010 CPI and implementing partner CVCD initiated a new micro-credit project in Kamrieng District in Battambang Province, one of the areas recently cleared of mines by MAG.
The number of landmine and unexploded ordnance casualties in Cambodia rose by 17 per cent to 286 last year, underlining the continued need for MAG's lifesaving work in the country.
Figures from the Cambodian Mine/Explosive Remnants of War Victim Information System (CMVIS) show that 71 people died and 215 were injured as a result of 150 accidents, the same accident total as recorded in 2009.
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