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 act. 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 in the...

we witnessed destructive. of 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 a bullet... was once fired, was potentially contaminated. the us army opened a new chapter in its fanatical use. 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, and 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 impossible. 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 une earthhed.

this chart, depicting the amount of unexploded ordinance discovered in berlin between 1947 and 2011. 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. they are 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 7500 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 exploded 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 unexplod munitions is not just limited to accidents

either. the people in some poor regions collect these munitions in order to sell them or use the explosive materials inside. unfortunately such an devers 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 scuurge 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 in 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 claimed that his soldiers would remain on iranian soil even 50 years after the war ended. عراق استفاده میکرد، فرش کردن زمین واست سیمخواrدارای فرشی و سیمخواردارای. قویه که معمولاً یا قبل از میدان مین این کارو انجام میداد یا بین دو تا میدان مین دستک ها رو

که می بینید اونا از دستکه بلند استفاده می کردند و سیم خوارددارهای حلقوی بعد از اونجا می رسیم به این سیم خوارداره ای که اینجا به صورت فرشی قشنگ چیده شده حدود سی و چند سال از این قضیه داره میگذره ولی کماکان رو زمین اون کار خودشو داره انجام میده. an unexploded ordinance in iranian border provinces is truly astounding. huzistan province 1,5000 hectares. ilam province, 1,700,00 hectares. kermanshah province, 700 thousand 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 thousand 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 land. 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 land mines, 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 lands. 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 are quite... different and diverse, hot and arid plains, areas covered in sand, vast wetlands, deserts, high altitude mountainous regions, forests and pastures, 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..." بخش جلوی 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 مین.

مردم عشایر منطقه یه بخشیش اینجا تو این خونه های یهلا قشلاقی 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 hard pressed to find anyone.

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 مینه ها هی اومده جنگل درست شده ۲ ساعت ۳ ساعت بارندگی شدید ما داشته باشیم توی این منطقه این بعد به شکل سیلاب در میاد که حتی تو قسمتها میاد. نزدیک جاده بالای 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 ولی 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 a 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 chazobe 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 sands 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 mines stay active for years under the sand and sometimes become even more sensitive than before. this 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 minefields are designed to be obstacles for enemy forces in any area considered to be a possible point of attack.

بهش میگن خوشه چهارتایی صلیبی این مین مرکزیش مین والمراست پا بهش بخوره یا اون سیم تلش کشیده شه حدود ۵۰ ۶۰ سانت میاد بالا و منهدم میشه مینیاش 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 هم مین والمرا داره مین.

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 صفر 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. 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 will take at least over an hour to get him to the nearest hospital, even in good weather.

این میلا مال ۳۰ سال قبلن اینا تقریباً ۱۰۰ متر اوورتر ما میله مرزی عراق عراق اونجا قرار داره زمستان که میشه بارش باران برک اینا رو جابجا می کنه بارانی که بیاد این مین از اینجا جابجا میشه میره اوور پوشش گیاهی داریم اینجا همه تب طب ماهور و پوشش الافزار و درخت ها. اینو کنار ریشه درخت درمیاریم.

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