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Nagorno-Karabakh

Last Updated: 17 December 2012

Casualties and Victim Assistance

Casualty Overview

All known casualties by end 2011

At least 334 mine/ERW casualties (74 killed; 260 injured)

Casualties in 2011

4 (2010: 3)

2011 Casualties by outcome

4 injured (2010: 3 injured)

2011 Casualties by device type

2 ERW; 1 AP mine; 1 AV mine

HALO Trust reported four casualties in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2011: a boy and a girl were injured by explosive remnants of war (ERW), a man was injured by an antivehicle mine and a deminer was injured by an antipersonnel mine.[1] In 2010, three casualties were reported.[2]

HALO collected information on 334 mine/ERW casualties (of which 74 people were killed) in 257 incidents in Nagorno-Karabakh between 1995 and the end of 2011. Over a quarter of the total recorded casualties (89) were children, mostly boys. Of the total casualties, 37 were military and another nine 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

In Nagorno-Karabach, at least 260 people have been injured by mines and ERW, including cluster munition remnants, 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 Nick Smart, Nagorno-Karabakh Programme Manager, HALO, 10 April 2012.

[2] Email from Andrew Moore, Caucasus and Balkans Desk Officer, HALO, 6 April 2011.

[3] Emails from Nick Smart, HALO, 10 April 2012, 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] Ibid. Based on data in emails from HALO.

[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.