Another landmine victim - this time he was lucky as a HALO team was nearby; unless systematic demining of all high priority land is completed, accidents will continue to occur
Humanitarian mineclearance in Afghanistan must continue unless the international community is prepared to accept thousands of civilian casualties for decades to come.
Afghanistan had 4,270 mine and ERW victims between 2004 and 2009. It is HALO’s strong belief that only through maintaining the appropriate scale can Afghanistan’s landmine problem be addressed in order that casualties are avoided and the population of Afghanistan is no longer impacted by the presence of mines and other explosive remnants of war.
Hence it is HALO’s plan to seek to maintain, and where possible expand, its current capacity in order to clear all high and medium priority tasks within its area of operations.