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Casualties and Victim Assistance
Casualty Overview
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All known casualties by end 2011 |
343 mine/ERW casualties (75 killed; 268 injured) |
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Casualties in 2011 |
0 (2010: 12) |
In 2011, no mine or explosive remnants of war (ERW) casualties were identified in Niger. In January 2012, however, three Nigerian soldiers were killed and one injured when their car drove over an antivehicle mine.[1] In 2010, 12 casualties were identified.[2]
In 2010, the National Commission for the Collection and Control of Illicit Weapons (Commission Nationale pour la Collecte et le Contrôle des Armes Illicites, CNCCAI) reported a total of 319 (66 killed; 253 injured) mine/ERW casualties in Niger between 2007 and 2009, the period during which the majority of casualties in Niger occurred.[3] Between 1999 and the end of 2011, the Monitor identified a total of 343 mine/ERW casualties (75 killed; 268 injured), including 12 casualties identified prior to 2007 and 12 in 2010.[4]
Victim Assistance
As of the end of 2011, the total number of mine/ERW survivors in Niger was at least 268.[5]
CNCCAI is the government focal point for victim assistance but its role has been largely limited to advocacy within the government on behalf of survivors due to lack of funds. The Ministry of Population and Social Reforms serves as the government focal point on disability issues. Niger lacks a specific victim assistance plan, but victim assistance is mentioned in the Anti-Mine Action Plan 2009–2013.[6]
Victim assistance services are severely limited, particularly in the Agadez region, where most survivors are. Handicap International (HI) launched a victim assistance program in 2010. During 2011, no physical rehabilitation care existed in the country; the ICRC supported the Niamey national hospital in reactivating its orthopedic department, due to open in 2012.[7]
Niger ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 24 June 2008.
[1] “Saisie de roquette RPG-7, AK-47 et 1 tonne de résine cannabis en moins d'un mois,” ActuNiger, 23 January 2012, www.actuniger.com, accessed on 4 April 2012.
[2] Email from Allassan Fousseini, Consultant, CNCCAI/UNDP, 4 May 2010.
[3] Ibid., 10 March 2010.
[4] ICBL, Landmine Monitor Report 2004: Toward a Mine-Free World (New York: Human Rights Watch, October 2004), www.the-monitor.org.
[5] Emails from Allassan Fousseini, CNCCAI/UNDP, 10 March 2010; Xavier Joubert, HI, 9 March 2011; Allassan Fousseini, CNCCAI/UNDP, 4 May 2010; and Kotoudi Idimama, UNICEF Niger, 25 February 2011.
[6] Email from Allassan Fousseini, CNCCAI/UNDP, 10 March 2010.
[7] ICRC, “Annual Report 2011,” Geneva, May 2012, p. 196.
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