According to the Landmine Monitor 2011:
“Both the military junta in Burma and non-state armed groups have continued to use anti-personnel mines extensively”
We visited Mae Tao Clinic and were able to see the direct results of these mines first hand. There was a board in the prosthetics room in the clinic with over 2o names of patients awaking new or renewed legs/feet etc. One name was of a 17-year-old boy who was getting his leg “renewed” for the third time. The work of this clinic, founded by Dr. Cynthia Maung was pretty inspirational.
Last year, Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi called on all combatants to “cease the way of mines” and all groups to “start to ban landmines in their operations without waiting for their opponent to start to do it.”
Practical Peace 