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Sri Lanka: Humanitarian Mine Action Helps Families Return Home
Posted by: Emma Smith
About the Author: Emma Smith is an assistant program manager for Afghanistan, Sudan, and Sri Lanka in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement.
How many landmines does it take to cripple a community? In a recent trip to Sri Lanka, I was surprised to learn that the answer could be zero.
We visited the northern village of Marathanmadhu, which the Sri Lankan Army suspected to be filled with buried landmines a deadly legacy in many parts of the country…