Georgia joins Landmine Free South Caucasus campaign
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For the first time this year International Mine Awareness week is being marked in the South Caucasus with region-wide campaign.
The campaign is running in various place in the South Caucasus countries, including Georgia.
Under the slogan “Landmine Free South Caucasus” events are being held at various locations between April 4-10.
An estimated over 5,000 people have been killed or injured through #landmines in non-combat situations in the #SouthCaucasus in the last 30 years. Find out more and learn about the EU's initiative #landminefreeSC: https://t.co/ZHbtVjZh2thttps://t.co/VzFKAqcwVI
— EU Delegation Georgia (@EUinGeorgia) April 5, 2019
The campaign encourages governments, opinion makers and citizens throughout the region to intensify their efforts to clean the South Caucasus from the scourge of landmines and unexploded ordinances.
According to conservative estimates, more than five thousand people have been killed or injured as a result of landmines or other unexploded ordinances in non-combat situations in the South Caucasus in the last thirty years, the organisers say.
- Landmines kill and maim indiscriminately; most victims are innocent civilians, including children.
- Where recorded in the casualty data from the South Caucasus, the majority of victims have also been civilians.
- The problem leaves a strong impact not only on those directly affected, but also on their families, friends and communities.
In the South Caucasus landmines not only cause human suffering, they also in many circumstances impede economic development, as they limit the cultivation of agricultural land and restrict livestock movement.