these children are victims of a war that ended over half a century ago, landmines and explosive remnance of war are the cursed inheritance left to them by war.

up until the 20th century, the number of killed and injured caused by munitions left from wars was quite inconsequential, but the weaponry built during the first world war mandated new definition of unexploded munitions, leftover from wars. access to more powerful weapons led to a greater number of deaths and thus more victories in battle, but no one was thinking of the other consequences of using such weapons. the predicament of the munitions left over from that war hadn't made itself fully evident yet when the second world war broke out with even more powerful and destructive weapons than those used. than

the first. we witnessed. destructive weaponry reach its peak near the end of the second world war, the atomic bombs, the united states dropped on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nakazaki. the second world. war not only saw the use of

deadly weaponry, but also millions of anti-tank and anti-personnel mines being buried into the ground by all the warring parties. the destructive effects of this kind of weapon only became clear after the war was over. the world was no longer safe for civilians. landmines and explosive remnance of war started causing casualties, cities, villages, the countryside, any place where... bullet was once fired, was potentially contaminated. the us army opened a new chapter in its fanatical... use of deadly weapons during the

vietnam war. they dropped millions of bombs from the skies and desigrated the land by burying millions of mines. the unexploded submunitions from cluster bombs used in this war were too many to count and are still found today in the countries dragged into the vietnam war, some even in the proximity of schools where children are studying. the international committee of the red cross (the icrc). estimates that up to 11

thousand people have been killed or maimed by unexploded ordinances, 30% of whom have unfortunately been children. an exact assessment of the amount of munitions left over by different wars is: possible, large numbers of these unexploded munitions are still discovered in places which used to be battlefields many decades ago. it's hard to believe that a century after the end of the first world war, munitions containing mustard gas from that period have just recently been unearthed.

this chart depicting the amount of unexploted ordinance discovered in berlin between 1947 and 2000. 11 makes it clear that we should always expect to find leftover munitions in historical war zones. it appears the end of these unexploded munitions is nowhere in sight, even though the war they were used in ended 70 years ago. landmines and explosive remnants of war are the terrifying legacy: mines are cheap to produce and thus widely used in battles, their indefinite activity, and the unknown

nature of their numbers and locations have made the world unsafe for civilians decades after the end of the war. landmines don't distinguish between soldiers and civilians. each year, approximately 7,500 people are killed or injured by landmines and explosive remnants of war. nearly one-third of those who survived such explosions suffer loss of limbs. an official unicef report on children killed by landmine states. children are the most vulnerable group at risk from landmines and unexploded ordinance, their curiosity compels them to pick up strange unknown items in the hope of finding new toy. children in 60 countries are currently in danger of being killed by landmines. the risk from unexploded munitions is not just limited to accidents

either. the people in some poorer regions collect these munitions in order to sell them or use the explosive materials inside. unfortunately, such endeavors usually have deadly outcomes, mines and explosive remnance of war have been widely used in iran, afghanistan, angola, bosnia and herzegovina, cambodia, ethiopia, iraq, mozambique, nicaragua, somalia, sudan. and many other war stricken countries. all these countries are now grappling with the scurge of contaminated areas. iran had no contaminated areas until 1980. however, the massive war which was about to start, turned iran into the second

most contaminated country at the time. iraq's bath regime invaded iran in 1980 and orders of saddam. five of iran's border provinces were under constant and heavy fire from saddam's army for eight years. after the iraqi bath forces suffered multiple defeats in the first years of the war, saddam resorted to defensive measures to stop the

advance of iranian forces. the bath army turned to attritional warfare by creating dense and layered mine fields, building obstacles, white trenches. and bombarding iran's border provinces. the war ended after eight years. in addition to all the destruction. iran now had to start a new, quiet, but longer war. even though iraqi forces had withdrawn from iranian territory, iran's fight against the leftover landmines and unexploded munitions had only just begun. saddam had claim that his soldiers would remain on iranian soil even 50 years after the war ended. فرش کردن زمین واست سیمخواردارای فرشی و سیمخواردار. حلقویه که معمولاً یا قبل از میدان مین این کارو انجام میداد یا بین دو تا میدان مین دست کاری که

میبینید اونا از دستکهای بلند استفاده میکردن و سیم خواردارهای حلقوی بعد از اونجا می رسیم به این سیم خوارداره ای که اینجا به صورت فرشی قشنگ چیده شده حدود سی و چند ساله از این قضیه داره میگذره ولی کماکان رو زمین اون کار خودشو داره انجام میده. mines and unexploded ordinance in iranian border provinces is truly astounding. khuzastan province 1,5000 hectares, ilam province 1,7000 hectares, kermanshah province 700,00 hectares; kurdistan province 150,00 hectares and west azerbaijan province also 150,00 hectares. between them, these contaminated lands cover

area larger than the whole of the netherlands, switzerland and other 121 countries, around 4 million 200,00 hectares. the density of the iraqi mine fields left in iran don't match conventional military standards. some of these contaminated lands contain over 130. this region of iran near the iraqi border covers 300 hectares, 100 of which was turned

into mine fields by iraq. each of these red dots represents four landmines, meaning the iraqi army planted 60,00 mines in this area. the demining operation in this region is still ongoing even after 30 years. saddam's government used over 20 million landmines and several millions of explosive ordinance on iranian soil. this made iran the second most contaminated country at the time after egypt. iranian armed forces would start the clearance of contaminated land. as they were liberating those occupied regions. the demining process continued for more than

decade after the end of the war, and the large part of the contaminated areas were eventually cleared. however, that method could not achieve complete clearance due to the problems caused by the passage of time and the return of civilians to the region. after the initial clearance, a group of experts named the islamic republic of iran mine action center was assembled to organize, implement and oversee the necessary requirements for humanitarian demining activities. this group was tasked not only with systematic demining, but with educating civilians. who were at risk in order to reduce the potential number of deaths, the

group also needed to have the ability to communicate with other foreign and domestic institutions in order to expand international relations and convey the experience they had gained while clearing the mindfields of iran to the entire world. the geography and climate of each of the contaminated regions in iran quite different and diverse, hot and arid plains, areas covered in sand, vast wetlands, deserts, high altitude mountainous regions, forests and pass. these can all be found in iran's five border provinces. landmines and unexploded munitions are spread out throughout these regions, both close to the surface and buried deep underground. no one is willing to build their house, start a farm, take their herds grazing, invest money or establish factory anywhere near a

contaminated area. life can't continue in a place where you can't trust the ground you stand on. even if that place is otherwise a paradise, the islamic republic of iran mine action center had a long path to complete de mineing ahead of it. تراکتور. ۳ نفر روی تراکتور بودن. بر اثر برخورد با مین ام ۱۵، د نفر کشته و یک نفر مجروح داده. قسمت بخش جلویی تراکتوره یعنی چرخ جلو که یکیش اینجاست منهدم شده آمده پریده اینجا یکیشم اون عقبه اینم عقب تراکتوره جاییه که راننده صندلیش مشخصه جایی که الان من تو تصویر نشان میدم اینجا جاییه که از

رینگ رفته روی ممین. مردم عشایر منطقه یه بخشیش اینجا تو این خونه های ییلاق بشلاقی ساکنن محل حادثه با این چادر حدوداً ۵۰ متر فاصله داره.

no one knows exactly how many landmines and unexploded ordinance are buried in the ground, and we therefore cannot know when the last one is removed and complete clearance is achieved, both the surface and the depths of the ground need to be searched centimeter by centimeter. you would be heart-pressed to find anywhere.

کلاً اومده شرق و غرب این رودخونه مین گذاری شده نزدیک ۶۰ کیلومتر این رودخونه هست قدیم این حالت جنگلی رو اصلاً نداشت ولی تو این سال های گذشته نزدیک به ۳۰ سال گذشته توی میدون بین ها هی اومده جنگل درست شده دو ساعت ۳ ساعت بارندگی شدید ما داشته باشیم توی این منطقه این به شکل سیلاب در میاد که حتی تو قسمت میاد نزدیک جاده اسفالت بالا که حدود یک کیلومتر نیم فاصله داره قرار می گیره. اینجا ما تو عمق تقریباً نزدیک به دو مترم تو غرب رودخونه مین درآوردیم. در سطح هم پیدا شده عرض کردم خدمتتون همین هفته گذشته در سطح گوشه مین دیده شده حدود ۴۰ سانت در ۴۰ سانت اندازه این مینه اومده بغل چادر

عشایه میدون مینا الان دفع شده زیر روش درخت اومده جنگل شده و اینا. this river is impossible to completely demine because of the flooding and the trees around it, so the local residents must constantly be ready for the river to send them a deadly gift, even if they live kilometers away. the shifting sands created new landscape every day here, these same shifting sands had made life tremendously difficult for the iraqi forces during the war, because their very dense mine fields were quickly buried

under the dunes. they therefore had to build multiple mine fields in the same place to stop the advance of iranian forces. in some regions, up to six layers of mines were planted into the sand. the area of chazarbe is several square kilometers and clearing it is extraordinarily difficult since every centimeter of the sands needs to be sifted through up to depth of 6 meters. in addition, the sand's shift and the height of the sand dunes changes almost every day. one thing the demining squads need to

keep in mind is that the minds stay active for years under the sand and sometimes become even more sensitive than before. the smallest mishandling can lead to an explosion. there is some probability of finding landmines in any area where military forces were once present, even if no conflict took place there. this is because mindfields are designed to be obstacles for enemy forces in any area considered to be a possible.

این یه خوشه بهش میگن خوشه چهارتایی صلیبی این مین مرکزیش مین والمراست پا بهش بخوره یا اون سیم تلش کشیده شه حدود ۵۰۶ سانت میاد بالا و منهدم میشه میناش سر جاشه همه مسلحه این مین منهدم شده جاش مونده این میدونم امتداد داره میره تا جلو فکر می کنم سه چهار تا دیگه نوار داشته باشه اینجا هم ضد خودرو داره همین والمرا داره و...

یه موقع هست که جاده اصلاً نداریم باید احداث بکنیم جاده رو که زمان زیادی میبره یه موقع هم هستش که جاده داره ولی به مرور زمان از بین رفته باید مرمت بشه. که این کارو ما انجام دادیم الان ۸ کیلومتر جاده سازی توش انجام شده منطقه نزدیک سفر مرزیه الان پشت سر من این ارتفاع روبه رو صفر مرزیه این مینام خب زمان

زیادی ازش گذشته خب آبرفته به اصطلاح اون شیب تند و گیاهایی که توش رشد کرده جابه جایی مینا رو باعث شده که تو زمین به وجود بیاد. a while ago a man lost his lekk after stepping a mine which the rain. had moved down from this mine field, every rainy season increases the chance of other areas being contaminated. if any of the clearance squad members is injured here, it'll take at least over an hour to get him to the nearest hospital, even in good weather.

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