Landmines

Myanmar led world in landmine victims in 2023: monitor

Decades of sporadic conflict between the military and ethnic rebel groups have left the Southeast Asian country littered with deadly landmines and munitions.

Stop using landmines

Nine out of the 14 states and regions in Myanmar are contaminated with landmines, making it the world's third most

6,300 in no-man's land for 45 days

Some 6,300 Rohingya people, mostly women and children, have been stuck in no-man's land along the Naikhyangchhari border since August 27.

mayanmar-rohingya-refugee-crisis- / Rohingya villages still burning, mines laid

Rights bodies have come up with new evidence that fires are still torching Rohingya villages in Rakhine while Myanmar military have laid landmines during attacks on villages and along the Bangladesh border. Amnesty International has assessed three new videos taken inside Rakhine as recently as Friday afternoon showing large plumes of smoke rising from Rohingya villages as well as satellite imagery with smoke visible over burnt-out structures.

November 20, 2024
November 20, 2024

Myanmar led world in landmine victims in 2023: monitor

Decades of sporadic conflict between the military and ethnic rebel groups have left the Southeast Asian country littered with deadly landmines and munitions.

November 1, 2017
November 1, 2017

Stop using landmines

Nine out of the 14 states and regions in Myanmar are contaminated with landmines, making it the world's third most

October 11, 2017
October 11, 2017

6,300 in no-man's land for 45 days

Some 6,300 Rohingya people, mostly women and children, have been stuck in no-man's land along the Naikhyangchhari border since August 27.

September 24, 2017
September 24, 2017

Rohingya villages still burning, mines laid

Rights bodies have come up with new evidence that fires are still torching Rohingya villages in Rakhine while Myanmar military have laid landmines during attacks on villages and along the Bangladesh border. Amnesty International has assessed three new videos taken inside Rakhine as recently as Friday afternoon showing large plumes of smoke rising from Rohingya villages as well as satellite imagery with smoke visible over burnt-out structures.