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The Bg News December 18, 2000, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper December 18, 2000. Volume 86 - Issue 74

The Bg News December 11, 2000, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper December 11, 2000. Volume 86 - Issue 69

The Bg News November 21, 2000, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper November 21, 2000. Volume 86 - Issue 59

Ddasaccident330, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

At 09h15, the team arrived to Koshare 1. At 11h15, the Team Leader moves [the Victim] to the new working clearance lane. At 11h40, uncontrolled detonation. The mine involved in the accident is the PMA-3 blast mine.

Ddasaccident340, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

Demining accident occurred on November 11th 2000 at 10.15 hrs, in the area of village Zavala, Ravno municipality. The victim was on the shift in the working lane when the accident happened. The medic tried to provide emergency first aid but stated instant death.

Ddasaccident573, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

On 9 November 2000, [The Victim] was accompanying a group of engineers during a routine visit to Dubinje airport in Sjenica. Their job was to assess the damage to airport facilities. Six new submunitions had been reported, having been seen lying on the ground. Not wanting to put off disposal of the duds, [The Victim] went to the marked location. The first one he approached exploded with terrible force after he ‘barely’ touched it. He suffered cardiac arrest upon arrival at hospital. Both his arms and legs had to be amputated; he has had more than 20 operations in total. …

The Bg News November 6, 2000, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper November 6, 2000. Volume 86 - Issue 49

The Bg News November 3, 2000, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper November 3, 2000. Volume 86 - Issue 48

Ddasaccident328, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

The Section Commander was not looking at the Supervisor at the time of the accident and couldn’t witness the accident. When he turned around, he saw that [the Victim] was in the uncleared area, between the two rows of mines. The Section Commander called for assistance. The mine involved in the accident was a blast anti-personnel mine type PMA-2.

Ddasaccident303, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

On the 30th October 2000, an Anti Personnel Mine, Type R2M2, detonated app 3,5m in front of [the victim] without obvious reason.

The Bg News October 27, 2000, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper October 27, 2000. Volume 86 - Issue 43

The Bg News October 19, 2000, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper October 19, 2000. Volume 86 - Issue 37

The Utah Statesman, October 18, 2000, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

The Bg News October 18, 2000, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper October 18, 2000. Volume 86 - Issue 36

The Utah Statesman, October 13, 2000, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Ddasaccident310, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

The victim was a Section Leader who had been conducting his duties for three hours when, at 08:45 a deminer informed the victim “that there was a strange object in his excavation lane”. The Section Leader tried to excavate the object but had some difficulty “seeing it clearly because his visor was dirty and scratched. So he raised his visor halfway to see better, than grasped the object with the thumb and forefingers of his left hand and tried to pull and pry the object from the earth with the trowel”. The object detonated.

The Bg News October 5, 2000, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper October 5, 2000. Volume 86 - Issue 29

Ddasaccident302, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

On 5 October at 12:55, [the victim] was carrying out normal demining duties with complete PPE on. He was clearing in the Cordon Sanitaire when a mine suspected to R2M2 model detonated on its own 2,5 metres in front of him. At that particular time [the victim] was in a kneeling position excavating to try and locate another mine.

Yale Nursing Matters Fall 2000 Volume 2 Number 1, Yale University School Of Nursing

Yale School of Nursing Alumni Newsletters and Magazines

Please contact the Medical Historical Library if you need a higher resolution version.

Interaction, Cisr Jmu

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Comprised of a vast assortment of more than 160 U.S.-based relief, development, environmental and refugee agencies active in over 100 nations, InterAction, founded in 1984, leads the United States as one of the most effective advocates for individual and country autonomy. In attempt to assist people and developing nations in obtaining this objective, InterAction agencies “promote economic development and self-reliance, improve health and education, provide relief to victims of disasters and war, assist refugees, advance human rights, protect the environment, address population concerns, advocate for more just public policies and increase understanding and cooperation between people."

The Mine Action Process, James Trevelyan

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

There are three ways to improve the mine action process to allow displaced people to return to their land sooner and with less risk of injury. Naturally, a major increase in aid funding would achieve a similar result using the existing process. Three main avenues to achieve improved outcomes with the same level of funding are as follows:

• Improving the technology, cost effectiveness and reliability of the mine clearance process,
• Applying risk management approaches to manage mine contamination problems, and
• Utilizing local resources and seeking alternative sources of funding more effectively.

Ddasaccident437, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

In this case “while mine clearing procedure, in one canal by the state road D-7 was a vegetation burn and in other canal deminers from [Name excised] demining company were working. [The Victim] was hit in the back and legs while checking the fire.”

The Utah Statesman, September 27, 2000, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Ddasaccident329, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

As he was going down the row to mark the end of the row, he stood on two PMA-1 mines on top of each other. At the time of the accident, the [Demining group] reconnaissance team was conducting a Level 2 Survey without proper communication, medical support and without wearing PPE. This activity was being carried out despite an earlier decision to suspend clearance operations because of poor weather conditions.

The Bg News September 20, 2000, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper September 20, 2000. Volume 86 - Issue 18

The Bg News September 19, 2000, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper September 19, 2000. Volume 86 - Issue 17

Ddasaccident327, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

The [Demining group] base informed [demining group Programme Manager] that Morina #2 clearance have started. Uncontrolled explosion occurs in Morina 2 minefield, 1 deminer injured.

The Bg News September 15, 2000, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper September 15, 2000. Volume 86 - Issue 15

Ddasaccident309, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

On the day of the accident the site-log recorded that work started at 06:30 and a change-over took place every 30 minutes thereafter. The accident occurred during a change-over period. While standing up from a kneeling position at 10:45, Victim No.1 lost his balance and fell forwards detonation a Type-72 antipersonnel blast mine [probably with his hand]. Victim No.1’s partner and Section Leader were standing too close to him at the time.

The Utah Statesman, September 13, 2000, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.