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Ddasaccident406, Hd-Aid

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At some time between 05:50 and 05:55 whilst travelling south, the rear right wheel of the 110 detonated an AT mine. The vehicle was thrown forward and through an arc of 180° coming to rest facing approximately north 5 metres from the point of impact. The driver [Victim no.1] exited the vehicle by the drivers side door. [Victim no.2] exited through the windscreen area (the entire window and rubber surround having been blown out).

Ddasaccident586, Hd-Aid

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The incident occurred after the rear right wheel of the [Demining group] Land Rover 110 travelled over the top of an anti-tank mine, possibly a Belgian PRB-M3 minimum metal anti-tank mine buried at depth of less than 10cm, causing it to detonate. The mine had been missed by two mine detection dogs who had previously searched the lane in both directions.

Ddasaccident399, Hd-Aid

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At 12:25 the whistle for changeover was blown and the teams started the change over. This was also the change over for the last shift for the day as the demining operation stops at 13:00. During this change over [Deminer No.2] finished his duties for the day and [the Victim] was to work the last shift of twenty-five minutes. The change over took place and according to [Deminer No.2] all the equipment and PPE were handed over and a short briefing was done. He said that he left the working area. Before the second whistle was blown, that was suppose …

Report On The Mission To Validate The Pilot County Mine Action Plan For Croatia, Ted Paterson, Eric Filippino

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This report covers the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of a mission from the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Mine Action (GICHD) on behalf of the UNDP-Croatia and the Croatian Mine Action Centre (CROMAC) undertaken from 11-15 November 2002. The purpose of the mission was to assess the relevance and effectiveness of the methods used to develop the pilot County Mine Action Plan (CMAC) in Croatia.

Decision Support For Mine Action - Kosovo, Aldo Benini

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Shortly after deploying the first-ever landmine impact survey team to the field in Yemen during July 1999, Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF) was asked by the European Union and the U.S. State Department’s Office for Global Humanitarian Demining Programs to make a critical contribution to the international response in the province of Kosovo in the former Republic of Yugoslavia. The mission: to classify affected communities in Kosovo by the severity of socio-economic impacts caused by landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) and develop a system for prioritizing the tasks that the United Nations Mine Action Coordination Center (UNMACC) managed. The …

Ddasaccident432, Hd-Aid

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From the accompanying photographs, some details of the accident are inferred. From the report, some information is gleaned, such as the fact that PROM-1 and PMA-3 mines were anticipated.

Ddasaccident392, Hd-Aid

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The Team Leader started to walk out to the rest area and [the victim] started to mark the cleared area by knocking in red pickets. After approx 12 m, (when Team Leader was facing the access lane in a Northern direction), an uncontrolled detonation occurred.

Rhino Earth Tiller Test Report: Area Reduction In Mixed Minefields, Christopher Wanner

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The Rhino is a tracked tilling vehicle custom designed and built from the ground up. The working tiller consists of two horizontal drums, stacked one overtop of the other. The drums are studded with commercially available, asphalt shredding chisels. The lower drum counter rotates against the direction of vehicle travel, excavating soil and objects from burial depths of 25 – 35 centimeters. The excavated soil and constituent objects are carried up the face of the lower, digging drum and into the 1 to 5 centimeter gap between the lower and upper drums. The chisels on the two drums mesh with …

A Study Of The Benefits Of U.S. Military-To-Military Cooperation In Humanitarian Demining, Gichd

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The United States (U.S.) Department of Defense (DoD) Humanitarian Demining Programme has four explicit goals:

1. TO ASSIST HOST NATIONS IN ESTABLISHING LONG-TERM, SUSTAINABLE, INDIGENOUS HUMANITARIAN DEMINING PROGRAMMES;

2. TO EXPLOIT THE SYNERGISM BETWEEN THE DOD HUMANITARIAN DEMINING PROGRAMME AND OTHER SIMILAR INTERNATIONAL, REGIONAL AND U.S. EFFORTS;

3. TO ESTABLISH A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO PROVIDING THE APPROPRIATE EQUIPMENT, TECHNICAL DATA, AND OTHER SUPPORT TO CONDUCT MINE AWARENESS AND MINE CLEARANCE TRAINING PROGRAMMES AND, WHENEVER POSSIBLE, EQUIPMENT FOR NEWLY TRAINED PERSONNEL TO THE FIELD; AND

4. TO SUPPORT U.S. FOREIGN POLICY AND SECURITY INTERESTS.

Ddasaccident395, Hd-Aid

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On the 26th September 2002 at approximately 1430 hrs whilst [Name excised, the Victim], was ploughing a field in Raab ett Talatine, a detonation occurred under the left hand back wheel of his tractor.

Ddasaccident393, Hd-Aid

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[The Victim] then excavated around the front and right hand side of the rock using his right hand, nothing being located. As it would have been difficult to excavate around the left hand side of the rock using his right hand he swapped hands and started to excavate using his left hand, (something that [the Victim] regularly does). [the Victim] had excavated approximately 15 cms in depth when there was an uncontrolled detonation.

Ddasaccident463, Hd-Aid

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Details of this accident have been withheld by the demining NGO that employed the Victim. A spreadsheet including the Victim’s name and very brief details of the accident was made available in 2007. Some details can be inferred from the information released. For example, the injury implies that the victim’s visor was not being worn in the correct manner, and the loss of one eye and severe injury to the other implies a severe facial injury.

4th Meeting Of The States Parties To The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (2002), Apmbc

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The Fourth Meeting of the States Parties was held 16-10 September 2002 in Geneva under the presidency of Ambassador Jean Lint of Belgium

A Multidisciplinary Analysis Of Frequency Domain Metal Detectors For Humanitarian Demining, Claudio Bruschini

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This thesis details an analysis of metal detectors (low frequency electromagnetic induction devices) with emphasis on Frequency Domain (FD) systems and the operational conditions of interest to humanitarian demining.

After an initial look at humanitarian demining and a review of their basic principles we turn our attention to electromagnetic induction modelling and to analytical solutions to some basic FD direct (forward) problems. The second half of the thesis focuses then on the analysis of an extensive amount of experimental data. The possibility of target classification is first discussed on a qualitative basis, then quantitatively. Finally, we discuss shape and size …

Ddasaccident376, Hd-Aid

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have affected this area to a large scale, as it was frontline between Taliban and Northern Alliance during the past few years. The survey operation is also in progress in the neighbouring remaining areas to be technically marked and mapped for clearance teams. On 1st September 2002 an accident occurred in the survey team that involved a surveyor. The operations of team No.3 was stopped, all deminers were ordered to get to the rest area and be prepared to assist [NGO-1] in their rescue operation.

The dead body of the surveyor was thrown into the minefield so two deminers cleared …

To Walk The Earth In Safety 4th Edition (Fy2002), Us Dos Pm/Wra

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By the end of 2002, the United States will have provided more than $600,000,000 to 43 countries, as well as to northwest Somalia, for various humanitarian demining efforts, such as deminer training, mine awareness and mine clearance, orthopedic assistance to, and socioeconomic reintegration programs for, landmine accident survivors and their families. More than $100,000,000 of this total was spent in Fiscal Year 2002, one of the largest commitments of any nation involved in financing humanitarian demining activities.

The goals of the U.S. Humanitarian Demining Program are simple and direct: to reduce the loss of life and limb of innocents; to …

Mission To Assess Future Sustainable Options Of The Lao Uxo Trust Fund And The Uxo Lao Mine Action Programme, Robert Keeley, Alison Allcock, Thongdeng Singthilath, Marty Kongsaysy

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This report sets out some ideas for scoping the contamination problem in Lao PDR and suggests ways by which priority areas could be identified. This leads to means by which long, medium and short term strategic action plans could be developed and an exit strategy for international assistance established. This report then identifies two options for reconstructuring the UXO program that address stakeholder concerns.

External Evaluation Of The Cambodia Mine/Uxo Victim Information System (Cmvis) Database, Steven Mellor

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The Cambodia Mine/UXO Victim Information System (CMVIS) is an organisation of the Cambodian Red Cross (CRC) and Handicap International (HI) established to provide the continuous and systematic collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of information about mine and UXO casualties in Cambodia.

This evaluation of the CMVIS was conducted by an external consultant, Steven Mellor, during September 2002 under the supervision and at the request of Handicap International Belgium. The evaluation is to assist in strengthening the database functions of CMVIS; identify areas that could be improved within the system of data entry through to the output of monthly and specialised …

Ddasaccident375, Hd-Aid

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NGO-2 were engaged in a clearance task. NGO-1 was coincidentally working close by making a survey. At 09:15 a deminer from [NGO-1] Team No.6 hit a mine and [NGO-2] Team 3 heard the detonation.

Ddasaccident428, Hd-Aid

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Referring to demining sequence, deminer no. 1 conducted vegetation removal drill (skipped tripwire drill due to none of tripwire); upon completion of the vegetation removal drill, deminer no. 2 [ the victim] conducted detector drill. These drills had been repeated two to three times already to the time of accident occurred. Mr. [name excised], the victim's peer, told that he found deminer no. 1 removed the cut salvages once then the second time and then he heard an explosion and found [the victim] falling backward into the cleared area. Then he called section commander for help, section commander called to …

Ddasaccident456, Hd-Aid

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The demining pair were clearing a lane as a team with one doing the detection and the other clearing the vegetation. The pair had just changed around after detection. The victim moved to the top of the clearance lane to re-position the red string lines and begin clearing vegetation and spoil from the next part of the lane prior to detection. As the victim bent down to position the stakes with the red string attached, he stood on a mine with his left foot on the cleared left hand side of the lane. When the mine exploded, the victim’s partner …

Ddasaccident382, Hd-Aid

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On the day of the accident a [1st commercial demining group] Deminer was conducting manual clearance in a clearance lane next to a row of No.4 mines. While using the demining trowel to scratch small pieces of gravel away from one No.4 mine, it detonated.

Ddasaccident380, Hd-Aid

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The Team 2i/c started packing the equipment at the Bench Mark (BM), whilst the Team Leader checked the disposal serial. He checked the first row of mines and was satisfied that a high order had been achieved on all four mines. He then moved forward to check the second row when an uncontrolled detonation occurred.

Ddasaccident383, Hd-Aid

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He had excavated approximately 15 cms towards the initial signal and 5 cms in depth when he came to a rock, he then continued to excavate down when the uncontrolled detonation occurred.

The Role Of Mine Action In Victim Assistance, Gichd

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This study objectives were to further develop definitions and lend support to an operational policy regarding mine victim assistance and integrated mine action. It is also intended to contribute to the formulation of coherent and comprehensive mine action programmes involving integrated victim assistance and in such, strengthen the role of the United Nations as the leaders in both policy and co-ordination for all mine-related activities.

Towards A Better Mine Action Programme: Master Of Science Dissertation, Tim Lardner

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This dissertation sets out to assess how the global community has dealt with landmines and the damage they are having on the population. The study analyses the development of two programmes in particular in Cambodia and Mozambique - and then considers the influences that culture and organisational structure have on those organisations. Taking these lessons, the study analyses the best methods of implementation and recommends a number of areas worthy of consideration in the development of future mine action organisations.

Ddasaccident381, Hd-Aid

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The Deminer then started to excavate the right hand signal, starting 20cms back from the signal source. He had excavated approximately 12 – 15 cms in distance from the signal, at a depth of 18 cms, with the width of the excavation trench being approximately 20cms wide before the uncontrolled detonation occurred.

Ddasaccident379, Hd-Aid

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At the time of the accident a Manual Clearance Team were operational on M/F 505 clearance site, at Bal’awin, Bayt Yahun. At approximately 14:00, hrs an uncontrolled detonation in a previously cleared area occurred, whilst the Team Leader was checking the area.

Ddasaccident378, Hd-Aid

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The Team Leader then adopted the kneeling position wearing his protective jacket and protective visor (down position). Prior to moving the rock he probed underneath it, checking for booby-traps, he then attempted to physically move the rock, whereupon an uncontrolled detonation occurred.

Ddasaccident394, Hd-Aid

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Once prepared to load the fuzes, Deminer [C] ordered Deminer [D, the victim] to pass him the fuzes from the ground sheet, to the vehicle where he was going to put them in the team detonator box. Deminer [the victim] picked up all 3 x fuzes and laid them on the palm of his left hand, he then handed the first fuze to Deminer [C] who in turn placed the fuze into the detonator box. There was an uncontrolled detonation of an Israeli No4 Anti Personnel mine fuze.