CHALLENGES IN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL MINE ACTION STANDARDS IN HUMANITARIAN DE-MINING IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
CHALLENGES IN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL MINE ACTION STANDARDS IN HUMANITARIAN DE-MINING IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Summary/Abstract: Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the world’s countries with the largest number of marked and unmarked mines in mine fields, as a consequence of the 1991-1995 war in the area of former Yugoslavia. “In the period from 1992 until the end of 2016, there were 8,379 mine victims in BiH. The total of 6,354 persons were mine-victims in the war period (1992-1995), whereas there were 1,751 mine-victims in the post-war period, thereof 612 were killed, 184 (10%) were women and 249 (14%) children. 127 deminers were injured or killed in humanitarian demining actions in BiH (51 killed).“ After the war, Bosnia and Herzegovina was left with 4.2 km2 of potentially dangerous mined area, what makes 8.2% of the country’s total surface. Nowadays, after 20 years of humanitarian demining, “the potentially dangerous mined area still makes 2.2% of the country’s total surface (1,091.23 km2 ).“3“545,603 persons or 15% of the total population still find themselves in a direct danger.

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