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Casualties
Casualty Overview
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All known casualties by end 2011 |
6,185 mine/ERW casualties (2,672 killed; 3,513 injured) |
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Casualties in 2011 |
4 (2010: 4) |
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2011 Casualties by outcome |
1 killed; 3 injured (2010: 4 killed) |
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2011 Casualties by device type |
4 ERW |
In 2011, four new explosive remnants of war (ERW) casualties were identified in Belarus. In April, one boy was killed and three other children (two boys and one girl) were injured in an incident caused by an unexploded mortar shell.[1] The same number of casualties occurred in 2010, when four men were killed by ERW.[2] No mine casualties have been reported in Belarus since 2004.
There have been at least 6,185 mine/ERW casualties (2,672 killed; 3,513 injured) in Belarus from 1945 to the end of 2011.[3]
Victim Assistance
Most mine/ERW survivors in Belarus were injured by ERW left over from World War II or during military service in Afghanistan in the 1980s. The total number of mine/ERW survivors in Belarus is unknown and it has not been reported how many of the 3,513 registered survivors are still alive.
There is no specific victim assistance coordination or planning in Belarus. The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection is the main government agency responsible for protecting the rights of persons with disabilities.[4] The Ministry of Health and several other agencies also had a “State Programme on Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons” for the period 2011 to 2015.[5]
As of 1 April 2012, Belarus had not signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.[6]
[1] “Four children explode on a shell in Liozneskom” (В Лиознеском районе на мине подорвались четверо детей), Vitebsk People’s News, 22 April 2011, news.vitebsk.cc, accessed 11 April 2012.
[2] CCW Protocol V Article 10 Report, Form E, 24 March 2011.
[3] 6,181 reported in 10 Report, Form E, 24 March 2011, and 4 new casualties in 2011.
[4] “Resolution of the Council of Ministers, Republic of Belarus,” N 1589, 31 October 2001, www.mintrud.gov.by.
[5] Ibid.,N 1126, 29 June 2010, pravo.by.
[6] UN, “UN Treaty Collection: parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: List of parties,” treaties.un.org.
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