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Casualty Overview
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All known casualties by end 2010 |
At least 330 mine/ERW casualties (74 killed; 256 injured) |
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Casualties in 2010 |
3 (2009: 5) |
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2010 Casualties by outcome |
3 injured (2009: 2 killed; 3 injured) |
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2010 Casualties by device type |
2 ERW; 1 cluster submunition |
HALO Trust reported three casualties who sustained significant injuries in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2010: two men were injured by explosive remnants of war (ERW) in two separate incidents and a boy was injured by an unexploded submunition. In total, HALO recorded nine people involved in seven mine/ERW/cluster submunition incidents. The other four incidents involved adults driving over antivehicle mines, resulting in vehicle damage but no significant injuries.[1] This represented a continuation in the decline in casualties since 2008 and marked the second year without antipersonnel mine incidents in Nagorno-Karabakh.[2]
HALO has collected information on 330 mine/ERW casualties (of which 74 people were killed) in 254 incidents in Nagorno-Karabakh between 1995 and the end of 2010. Over a quarter of the total recorded casualties (87) were children, mostly boys. Of the total casualties, 37 were military and another eight were deminers. After 2002, antivehicle mines caused the majority of annual mine/ERW incidents.[3]
Unexploded submunitions caused at least 15 casualties between 1995 and 2010.[4]
Victim Assistance
At least 256 people have been injured by mines and ERW, including cluster munition remnants, in Nagorno-Karabakh in addition to an unknown number of war veterans injured by mines during the conflict.[5] There is no specific victim assistance coordination body, plan, or focal point. Mine/ERW survivors received the same services as other persons with disabilities.[6] The Ministry of Social Welfare is responsible for coordinating and providing prosthetic, psychosocial, and employment services for persons with disabilities including mine/ERW survivors.[7]
[1] Email from Andrew Moore, Caucasus and Balkans Desk Officer, HALO, 6 April 2011. The six people not seriously injured were not included in the global casualty total for 2010.
[2] Casualty data for 2009 provided by email from Andrew Moore, HALO, 25 February 2010. HALO revised and corrected 2009 casualty data which had previously included seven casualties as of June 2009.
[3] Emails from Andrew Moore, HALO, 25 February 2010 and 6 April 2011; Matthew Hovell, Caucasus and Balkans Desk Officer, HALO, 8 July 2009; and Valon Kumnova, Program Manager, HALO, 6 April 2007.
[4] Ibid.
[5] Based on data in emails from Andrew Moore, HALO, 25 February 2010 and 6 April 2011; Matthew Hovell, HALO, 8 July 2009; and Valon Kumnova, HALO, 6 April 2007.
[6] ICBL-CMC, “Area Profile: Nagorno-Karabakh,” www.the-monitor.org, 21 July 2010.
[7] Government of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, “Statute of the Ministry of Social Welfare,” www.mss.nkr.am.
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