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- The Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA) Program, executed by
the regional Commanders, permits DoD to aid in alleviating
a highly visible, worldwide problem while accruing
significant training and readiness-enhancing benefits to the
US Forces.
- The DoS estimates that approximately 60-70 million
landmines are scattered across the globe today
- These landmines and other explosive remnants of war
(ERW) are the residue of civil wars and
internal conflicts found on virtually every continent
- Increasingly, civilians have been the target of
landmines to deny them their livelihood, to uproot them from
their land, and to promote political instability
- Today, antipersonnel landmines and ERW kill or maim hundreds of
people every month. Most of the victims are innocent
civilians
- DoD’s Humanitarian Mine Action Program, authorized by
10 USC Section 401, is a major component of the regional Commanders'
security cooperation efforts.
- As directed by the President, the USG landmine
assistance policy:
- Strengthens efforts to prepare participating host
nations to clear existing minefields
- Expands its efforts to develop better mine-detection and
mine-clearing technology for use in the many countries still
plagued by mines
- Increases our program for training and assisting
others nations as they strive to rid their territory of
landmines
- The goal of the Humanitarian Mine Action Program is to:
- Assist host nations in establishing an indigenous,
long-term, sustainable HMA Program
- Includes assisting recipient countries in
the development, training, staffing, and equipping of a
viable, national demining organization
- The DoD’s Humanitarian Mine Action Program:
- Helps foreign governments educate civilian populations
on the dangers of landmines and how to identify and report
them
- Helps foreign governments train a local demining cadre
to find and destroy landmines and return mined areas to
productive use
- Provides supplies, services and equipment (to a limited
degree) to host
country personnel to clear mined areas that impede the
repatriation of refugees and obstruct the necessary means to
lead productive lives
- The Humanitarian Mine Action Program also:
- Improves USG, DoD and the Commanders' relations with host
nations
- Enhances the deployment and war fighting skills of our
military forces
- Is instrumental in promoting regional stability
- Countries with Humanitarian Mine Action operations
include:
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Guatemala |
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Peru |
| Armenia |
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Honduras |
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Rwanda |
| Bosnia |
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Jordan |
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Swaziland |
| Cambodia |
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Laos |
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Thailand |
| Chad |
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Lebanon |
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Vietnam |
| Costa Rica |
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Mauritania |
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Yemen |
| Croatia |
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Moldova |
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Zambia |
| Djibouti |
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Mozambique |
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Zimbabwe |
| Estonia |
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Namibia |
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| Egypt |
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Nicaragua |
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| Ecuador |
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Oman |
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