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Country Reports
YEMEN, Landmine Monitor Report 2000
LM Report 2000 Full Report   Executive Summary   Key Findings   Key Developments   Translated Country Reports

YEMEN

Key developments since March 1999: The Level One Survey, the first comprehensive survey of its kind to be conducted in any landmine-affected country in the world, began in January 2000. The Mine Clearance Unit of the National Demining Program conducted its first operation and handed over the cleared field to villagers in December 1999. Yemen began destruction of its antipersonnel mine stockpile in February 2000. An additional 20,000 AP mines were found after submission of its Article 7 report. Yemen has served as the co-chair of the Standing Committee of Experts on Technologies for Mine Action. The Mine Ban Treaty entered into force for Yemen on 1 March 1999.

Mine Ban Policy

Yemen signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 4 December 1997 and ratified it on 1 September 1998. It entered into force for Yemen on 1 March 1999. There is no domestic law implementing the treaty. A Yemeni official told Landmine Monitor that if a request is made to the Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs about such a law, he has committed to put it forward to the Minister of Justice.[1]

Yemen submitted its first Article 7 report in November 1999. Yemen was four months late with its report because a helicopter crash claimed the lives of several high ranking officers from the Ministry of Defense who had collected information for the report.[2]

Yemen participated in the First Meeting of States Parties in Maputo in May 1999 with a delegation headed by Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, Dr. Mutahar Al Saidi. Yemen was named co-chair of the Intersessional Standing Committee of Experts on Technologies for Mine Action and participated in the nearly all of the intersessional meetings in Geneva.

Yemen voted for the December 1999 UN General Assembly resolution supporting the Mine Ban Treaty, as it had on similar resolutions in the past. Yemen is a state party to the original Protocol II (Landmines) of the Convention on Conventional Weapons, but has not ratified Amended Protocol II. An official has said that ratifying the amended protocol would “diminish” the role of the Mine Ban Treaty, which is much more comprehensive.[3] Yemen took part in the Amended Protocol II conference in Geneva in December 1999.

Minister Al Saidi welcomed the ICBL’s establishment of its Resource Center in Sana’a.[4] The Yemeni National Demining Committee, with the support of Rädda Barnen (Save the Children Sweden) and the Yemen Mine Awareness Association (YMAA), translated the Landmine Monitor 1999 country report on Yemen into Arabic and distributed 2,000 copies nationally and regionally.

Production, Transfer, and Use

According to the government, Yemen has never manufactured or exported AP mines.[5] For many years Yemen imported landmines from the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Italy.[6] The are no reports of new landmine use in Yemen. The last reported use of mines was in 1994. Mine use was a feature of the numerous internal conflicts in Yemen. Egypt also used mines in Yemen during its intervention in the Royalist-Republican war. Yemen is not currently involved in any armed internal or external conflict and has no non-state actors operating in the country.[7]

Stockpiling and Destruction

In its Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 report, covering the period 4 December 1997 to 30 November 1999, Yemen stated that there were 59,000 antipersonnel mines stockpiled, including POM-2 (44,500), PP-Mi-Sr-2 (11,000), PMN (2,000), and PMD-6 (1,500).[8] Since the submission of that report, the military has “discovered” about 20,000 more antipersonnel mines. The exact number, types, and locations of these newly discovered mines have not been confirmed.[9] The locations of stockpiled mines were not contained in the Article 7 report, but Landmine Monitor has been told that 42,000 POMZ-2 and POMZ mines are kept in stores in Aden, specifically at Ras Abas and Dar Saad.[10]

Yemen retains a stockpile of 4,000 AP mines for demining training purposes. This stockpile consists of 1,000 of each of the following types: PP-Mi-Sr-2, PMD-6, POM-2, and PMN. The mines are retained by the Military Engineering Department and will be located at five different military training camps.[11]

Yemen began the destruction of its AP mine stockpile on 14 February 2000, when 5,050 PMD-6 and PP-Mi-Sr-2 were destroyed at two separate places. The first destruction was arranged as an international celebration near the Jaolah minefield (B-12) with fifty PMD-6 detonated by the Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs and Head of the National Demining Committee, Dr. Mutahar Al Saidi. The second destruction of 5,000 PP-Mi-Sr-2 took place at Al Whed outside Little Aden where the majority of stockpile destruction will occur. Mines are destroyed by open detonation in consultation with the Yemen Environmental Protection Council and according to the UN’s international standards for disposal of unexploded ordnance. The cost has not been estimated yet, but a non-confirmed figure of $15,000-20,000 has been mentioned.[12] Yemen has not received any assistance from other governments for stockpile destruction costs, but has indicated that it can destroy its entire stockpile within a year if a donor country would fund it.[13]

The Landmine Problem

Yemen’s Article 7 report designated 889 places as mine-affected. As of February 2000, 1,207 mine-affected communities in 274 districts in 18 of 19 governorates had been identified. Most of the minefields in Yemen are located either in agriculture and grazing areas, close to water sources, or close to electricity sources in such places as Aden, Abyan and Lahej. There are minefields in populated areas in Al Dhala, Ibb, Aden, Lahej, and Hadhramout (often on the roadsides) and in desert areas in Shabwa and Hadhramout.[14] Only the Al Mahweet governorate has been declared mine-free. Fences and warning signs are missing around many of the minefields known by the military. Funds from the U.S. will cover the cost of some of the fences and signs that will be put up.[15]

Survey and Assessment

UNMAS selected Yemen as the first mine-affected country to have the Level One Survey “Landmine Impact General Survey” (Level One Survey) with the Information Management System for Mine Action (IMSMA).[16] Canada is funding the survey with $1.1 million and Japan has donated $450,000. The total budget for the survey is $1.8 million.

Three offices have been set up in Sana’a, Aden, and Mukalla. National staff have been recruited; twenty-eight personnel have been trained as supervisors/editors and three as data processors. The first training of field supervisors/editors was conducted 4-21 September 1999.[17]

The first test of the survey questionnaire was conducted 25-29 September 1999 in twenty-seven villages in fourteen governorates. The questionnaire, which had been translated into Arabic, worked well in general, but a retraining of the supervisors was needed to reinforce their skills.[18] The second test was conducted in special districts in the governorates of Sana’a, Ibb, Aden, Abyan and Hadramouth between 3 November and 2 December 1999. Twenty-two field supervisors/editors were involved and a total of eighty-five communities were surveyed.[19] The training of field survey enumerators was conducted in Aden between 6-30 November 1999.

The survey started after Ramadan in January 2000, simultaneously in fourteen governorates. After an announcement on television and radio regarding the Level One Survey, over sixty new mine suspected communities responded.[20] It is estimated that the survey will be finished by July 2000. After all the village level data has been collated and reviewed, a Survey Certification Committee will review the survey methodology and data collected before the aggregated results are released to the public.[21] The results of the survey will be available at the National Mine Action Center.[22]

Mine Action Funding

The government of Yemen spent an estimated $1.7 million in 1999 to support its National Mine Action Program, including salaries, allowances, health care, and transportation for the approximately 400 national staff involved, as well as barracks for the deminers, the training facility in Dar Saad in Aden, and the building where the National Mine Action Center in Sana’a is located.[23] The Yemen government’s expenditures are budgeted at $3,250,000 for the period 10 May 1999 to 30 April 2001 in the United Nations Development Program’s Project Document regarding support to the National Mine Action Program.

Yemeni businessmen have provided in-kind contributions for printing of mine awareness education material, provision of medical treatments, food and water tanks for the deminers in the field. This contribution is estimated to $10,000.[24] Members of the Yemen Mine Awareness Association have voluntarily provided in-kind contribution regarding mine awareness education.

Yemen has received (or will receive based upon commitments made to date) nearly $7.3 million from international donors for the national mine action program for the period October 1998 to September 2000. The National Demining Committee asks all donors who want to contribute to Yemen’s Mine Action Program to go through the Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs and conclude an agreement before starting activities. This procedure is in place to make sure that actions are performed according to the international UN standards and guidelines and to avoid duplication and unnecessary costs.[25] The UNDP has taken on the role of coordinating the funds from international donors.[26]

U.S. funds are partly channeled through the Ministry of Defense while the Ministry of Finance handles UN and other bilateral assistance. Prior to dispersal, the Ministry of Finance first needs approval from the National Demining Committee and the signature of its head, the Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs. This has led to a delay due to the fact that the national demining budget is outside the normal state procedures because the national mine action program was formed with a resolution by the Prime Minister and not as a ministerial decree.[27]

International Contributions to Yemen’s Mine Action Program
Source
Amount (in US$)
Recipient
Purpose
Duration
UNDP Yemen[28]
500,000
National Mine Action Program
Technical assistance
6/99-6/01
British Council to Victim Assistance[29]
48,300
Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA)
Victims assistance programs
1999
Canada[30]
67,746
ADRA
Protective equipment for deminers
In-kind
Canada[31]
250,000
ADRA
Victims assistance programs
2000-2001
Canadian CIDA[32]
114,067
ADRA
Victims assistance programs
1999
Canadian Voluntary Trust Fund[33]
1,100,000
UNMAS (MCPA)
Level One Survey
7/99-7/00
Germany[34]
100,000
National Mine Action Program
Assignment of an advisor to national mine action center
In-kind
Japan (through UNDP) [35]
500,000
National Mine Action Program
Mine awareness education and mine victim assistance
2000
Japan[36]
450,000
UNMAS (MCPA)
Level One Survey
2000
Norway (through UNDP)[37]
278,000
National Mine Action Program
Technical assistance
2000
Norway[38]
31,000
Yemen Mine Awareness Association
Mine awareness projects and advocacy
2000-2001
Rädda Barnen, (Save the Children Sweden) [39]
6,100
Yemen Mine Awareness Association, National Mine Action Center
Mine awareness education and advocacy
1999
Rädda Barnen (Save the Children Sweden) [40]
25,000
Yemen Mine Awareness Association, National Mine Action Center, ICBL Resource Center
Mine awareness education and advocacy
2000
Switzerland
100,000
National Mine Action Program
Assignment of an advisor to national mine action center
2000
U.S[41]
3,806,000
National Mine Action Program
Program assistance (see text)
10/98-8/00
Total
7,348313



[42] During 1999 around forty-five trainers from the U.S. have alternatively, in short assignments, been training the Mine Action Centers’ staff. Additionally, the U.S. has donated $290,000 to UNDP’s cost-sharing fund for the National Mine Action Program.[43]

Mine Clearance

A unit of the Engineering Department of the Ministry Defense and a separate body, the Mine Clearance Unit of the Regional Mine Action Center, undertake mine clearance in Yemen. The deminers from the Engineering Department work on an on-call basis and are hampered by outdated equipment and techniques.[44] The Mine Clearance Unit consists of two companies (a total of 180 staff), trained and equipped by the U.S. These deminers are seconded from the military to the National Demining Program.[45] A third company of deminers is scheduled to be trained in April 2000 and two more companies in 2001.

The first operation by the Mine Clearance Unit occurred in June 1999 at minefield C6 outside Aden. The Ministry of Defense has cleared this field twice before but there were still mines left. UXO and four antitank mines were found and destroyed in situ.[46] The cleared field, which will be used for grazing, was handed over to the villagers at a small celebration ceremony in early December 1999.

The National Demining Committee has designated the governorate of Aden and the Lahej corridor as the focus of its initial clearance effort. This area has been divided into four zones and will begin with twenty-one minefields in Zone B.[47] Field A1, in the Al Habil area, where the Yemen Mine Awareness Association (YMAA) and Rädda Barnen have had one of their community based mine awareness education pilot projects, has been chosen on a special request from the President to be one of the very first new areas to be cleared. This will constitute a complete mine action operation in this location, starting with mine awareness education, followed by a victim survey, a Level Two Survey, and mine clearance.

A problem regarding allowances for the demining staff in the field has been reported. Most of the deminers in the Mine Clearance Unit of the National Demining Program originally came from the Engineering Department of the Ministry of Defense. Since this secondment, they have not received special field allowances. The National Demining Committee does not have funding at the moment for this purpose nor for any life insurance. International donors are not willing to pay salaries or allowances to government employees. There is a hope however that an agreement can be reached between the Ministry of Defense and the National Demining Committee to solve the matter.[48] As a step forward an agreement was reached in March 2000 between UNMAS, UNDP, and the National Demining Committee stating that the deminers will be given free meals (funded by the UNDP) when they are in the field.[49]

Coordination of Mine Action

The Yemeni National Mine Action Program was established on 17 June 1998. It is the overall policy and decision-making body concerning all mine action in Yemen and is headed by the Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs. Other members include the Director of the Military Engineering Department, the Deputy Minister of Public Health, the Deputy Minister of Social Affairs, the Deputy Minister of Interior, the Deputy Minister of Information, the Deputy Minister of Education, the Director of Work and Administration at the Prime Minister’s Office, a representative from the Ministry of Planning, a representative from the Environment Protection Council, and a representative from the Yemen Mine Awareness Association. There is also a corresponding Regional Demining Committee, chaired by the Governor of Aden. The composition of the committees reflects an understanding that humanitarian demining involves the civil society and all concerned ministries and not only the Ministry of Defense.

Different advisory groups, such as the Victim Assistance Advisory Group and the Mine Awareness Education Advisory Group, have been formed. They meet once a month to coordinate the work between the different donors, NGOs, the staff at the National Mine Action Program, specially appointed coordinators from some ministries and the Yemen Mine Awareness Association. Donors, together with staff from the National Demining Committee, have formed a group called “Friends of Demining.”[50] Special working groups have also regularly met within the Victims/Survivors Assistance and Mine Awareness Education Advisory Groups, to draw up plans for future mutual work.

All major decisions regarding mine action are taken by the National Demining Committee on advice from the national and international staff in the National Mine Action Program. The National Mine Action Center (also called NTEU, National Technical Executive Unit) in Sana’a and the Regional Mine Action Center (RTEU, Regional Technical Executive Unit) in Aden are the operating units for the National Mine Action Program.

The National Demining Committee has delegated to the National Technical Executive Unit the responsibility for planning different strategies and mine action policies. The National Demining Committee decides on these plans and the Mine Action Centers implement them together with their different partners like national and international agencies, communities and concerned ministries.[51]

Mine Awareness Education

The mine awareness education national staff at the National Mine Action Program, in coordination with the Mine Awareness Education Advisory Group, has responsibility for producing national guidelines conforming to UN standards, a strategy paper and a work plan for 2000. The YMAA and Rädda Barnen are members of the Mine Awareness Education Advisory Group and Rädda Barnen has been appointed the lead agency among the international donors for Mine Awareness Education.

The Ministry of Information has promised to regularly broadcast on television and radio, and to publish in the newspapers, mine action progress in Yemen, international landmine issues, accidents caused by mines or UXOs, and mine survivors’ plight and achievements.[52] A television program was produced detailing Yemen's stand on the Mine Ban Treaty and mine action activities and was broadcast in December 1999 and March 2000 on anniversary dates of the treaty.

The Mine Awareness Department (staff of six) at the Regional Mine Action Center in Aden concentrates on raising awareness of different target groups living in the villages close to the minefields and to supporting the work of the deminers. The department has reached around 6,000 persons as of February 2000.

The YMAA and the Mine Awareness Education Department are designing new posters on mines and UXO in different parts of Yemen at the Regional Mine Action Center in Aden. A team with staff from the RMAC and members of YMAA has started community-based mine awareness education projects in the villages around minefield B12 in the Jaolah area.[53]

The YMAA has been granted $31,000 for community-based mine awareness education and for advocacy work around the Mine Ban Treaty. This funding will go toward producing new mine awareness education material, especially for children, and a quarterly newsletter. The YMAA together with Rädda Barnen continued community-based mine awareness education projects in Al Habil (Lahej governorate), Masabeen and Imran (Aden governorate) and Al Kood (Abyan governorate). Four schools and 2,904 school children in Al Kood, Al Habeel, Masabeen, and Imran have received training using the child-to-child approach. Four teams of educators are active in the villages. An evaluation of the project has been carried out in March 2000, but is still not compiled in a report.[54]

A regional Mine Awareness Education workshop organized by Rädda Barnen was held in Aden between 27 November and 3 December 1999. Participants from Sudan, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, and Yemen took part in the weeklong workshop.[55]

Landmine Casualties

There are still no accurate records of mine victims. The Level One Survey will provide nationwide information, but it will only record information on victims that have had landmine accidents during the past year.

The results of a mine/UXO survivor survey carried out by the YMAA and Rädda Barnen together with community members in Al Habil, Masabeen, Imran, and in Al Kood were released in 1999.[56] The survey showed that herding and playing are the most commonly performed activities resulting in landmine accidents, and the most common victim is the male child.[57]

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA) completed a landmine accident survivor survey in three districts: Hais, Jabal Ras, and Al Khokha. The survey was extended to a fourth bordering area, Shameer in the Taez governorate. In the survey, 1,326 people with disabilities were identified, including 51 mine victims. Most of the mine victims were middle aged and in great need of financial resources. Most victims that lost limbs did not have any prosthetic device or artificial limb.[58]

The only known records kept of mine injuries in 1999 are with the communities in the four pilot areas in which the Yemen Mine Awareness Association and Rädda Barnen have supported community-based mine awareness education. Key people in the villages have been supplied with record books, in which they have been asked to register all mine/UXO casualties that have occurred in the area. Al Habeel registered a mine accident in August 1999 when a mine explosion injured two shepherd boys.

Survivor Assistance

In general, health facilities in Yemen are inadequate in most regions, and only the main cities have hospitals. There have, however, been several recent developments in the provision of assistance.

In October 1999 a Rehabilitation Department was established within the Ministry of Public Health, in part to analyze the needs of people with disabilities and to coordinate at the national level.

The Victim Assistance Advisory Group has representatives from the Ministries of Public Health, Social Affairs and Education, as well as Rädda Barnen, Handicap International, Movimondo and ADRA, together with national and international staff from the National Mine Action Program. The advisory group has agreed to translate the ICBL's “Guidelines for the Care and Rehabilitation of Survivors” into Arabic, and to add a special page on Yemeni conditions. The UNDP and Rädda Barnen are funding this guide, and it will be widely distributed to all mine-affected areas of the country.

In January 2000 Handicap International (HI) began training staff at a new rehabilitation center in Aden together with the Ministries of Health and Social Affairs. This center is meant to serve landmine survivors and others in need of orthopedic devices from the governorates of Aden, Abyan, Shabwa, Lahej, and Dhale. The building and the equipment is provided by GAVTT (General Authority for Vocational and Technical Training, which is funded by the World Bank and Germany), and HI receives funding from ECHO (European Community Humanitarian Office) as well.

ADRA has started a project that assists mine survivors, which is funded by the Canadian government and the British Council.[59] It has also signed an agreement with the Ministry of Insurance and Social Affairs, the Minister of Health and the National Demining Committee to support a community-based rehabilitation (CBR) program for adults. This program is located in the same mine-affected areas in which Rädda Barnen is supporting the Ministry of Insurance and Social Affairs community-based rehabilitation program for children.[60]

A team of Italian doctors has begun training Yemeni surgeons on mine victim operations in Al Thowra hospital in Taez, that will also serve as the national referral hospital for mine victims.

For two weeks in September 1999 a four-person U.S. medical team specializing in eye injuries was brought in for consultation and training of staff at the Regional Mine Action Center and Aden Hospital. Mine victims with eye injuries were brought in for check-ups and treatments. A total of 150 mine victims were examined, thirty-eight of whom were treated, including eight surgical operations.[61]

Disability Policy and Practice

The Yemeni government has not segregated mine victims from other people with disabilities. Apparently there exists a firm belief among the decision-makers and donors to the Yemeni National Mine Action Program that health service structures for mine victims should not be separated from the already existing structures for people with disabilities. However, there is a serious intention to improve the structures already in place.[62]

The draft for the Care and Rehabilitation of the Disabled Act that was mentioned in Landmine Monitor Report 1999 is still being reviewed by the Parliament.

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[1] Interview with Rashida Al Hamdani, Secretary of the National Demining Committee, Sana’a, 12 February 2000.
[2] Interview with Mansour El-Azzi, the Executive Officer and General Coordinator of the National Mine Action Program, Sana’a, 22 November 1999.
[3] Interview with Rashida Al Hamdani, National Demining Committee, 10 April 2000.
[4] Interview with Dalma Foeldes, coordinator of the ICBL resource center in Sana’a, January 2000.
[5] Interview with Colonel Al Sheibani, Director of the Technical Unit of the National Demining Center, Sana’a, 23 January 1999.
[6] UNMAS, “Joint Assessment Mission Report: Yemen,” 21 September 1998.
[7] Interview with Rashida Al Hamdani, National Demining Committee, 25 April 2000.
[8] Yemen’s Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 Report, Form B, submitted 30 November 1999. Although the designation POM-2 is used in the report, this mine is usually referred to as the POMZ-2.
[9] Interview with General Al Dhahab, Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Ministry of Defense, Sana’a, 19 February 2000.
[10] Interview with Fadhle Mohammed Obaid Garama, Head of the Mine Clearance Department at the Regional Mine Action Center in Aden, Aden, 29 November 1999.
[11] Interview with General Al Dhahab, 19 February 2000.
[12] Interview with Phil Lewis, Chief Technical Advisor for the National Mine Action Program, Sana’a 19 February 2000.
[13] Ibid.; Interview with General Al Dhahab, 19 February 2000.
[14] Interview with Colonel Al Sheibani, Technical Unit of the National Demining Center, 22 November 1999.
[15] Ibid.
[16] Qadeem Tariq, MCPA, “Global Landmine Impact General Survey, Republic of Yemen,” November 1999, p. 5.
[17] Interview with Qadeem Tariq, MCPA team leader, 22 November 1999.
[18] Ibid.
[19] Interview with Qadeem Tariq, 26 January 2000.
[20] Interview with Qadeem Tariq and Justin Brady, the UN Level One Survey Quality Assurance Monitor, Sana’a, 17 February 2000.
[21] Ibid.
[22] Qadeem Tariq, “Global Landmine Impact General Survey, Republic of Yemen,” November 1999, p. 7.
[23] Interview with Phil Lewis, National Mine Action Program, 22 November 1999.
[24] Interview with Colonel Al Sheibani, Technical Unit of the National Demining Center, 22 November 1999.
[25] Interview with Rashida Al Hamdani, National Demining Committee, 23 November 1999.
[26] Interview with Mr. Mutahar Al Huthi, officer in charge of the UNDP Mine Action Program, Sana’a, 24 November 1999.
[27] Interview with Colonel Al Sheibani, Technical Unit of the National Demining Center, 22 November 1999.
[28] Interview with Al Huthi, UNDP Mine Action Program, Sana’a, 24 November 1999.
[29] Interview with Sheryl McWilliams, Director for the ADRA Victim Assistance Project in Yemen, Sana’a, 17 February 2000.
[30] Interview with Colonel Al Sheibani, Technical Unit of the National Demining Center, 23 November 1999.
[31] Interview with Nicolas Drouin, Program Officer at the Mine Action Unit, CIDA, Geneva, 30 March 2000.
[32] Interview with Sheryl McWilliams, ADRA, 17 February 2000.
[33] Interview with Mr. Al Huthi, 24 November 1999.
[34] UNDP, “Project Document for Support to the Yemen National Mine Action Program,” p.1.
[35] Interview with Phil Lewis, National Mine Action Program, 25 January 2000.
[36] Interview with Rashida Al Hamdani, 10 April 2000.
[37] Interview with Leif Trana, Second Secretary at the Norwegian Embassy in Riyadh, Sana’a, 4 December 1999.
[38] Ibid.
[39] Interview with Abdul Karim Ahmed, Head of the Rädda Barnen suboffice in Aden, Aden, 14 February 2000.
[40] Interview with Tryggve Nelke, Regional Representative for Rädda Barnen, the Middle East Program, Beirut, 23 February 2000.
[41] UNDP, “Project Document for Support to the Yemen National Mine Action Program,” p.1.
[42] Interview with Major Elzie, outgoing head of the U.S. assistance team to Yemen’s Mine Action Program, Sana’a, 25 November 1999.
[43] Interview with Mr. Al Huthi, 24 November 1999.
[44] Interview with General Al Dhahab, 19 February 2000.
[45] Interview with Major Elzie, 26 November 1999.
[46] Landmine Monitor Researcher’s field visit to the C6 minefield accompanied by Aysha Saed, Program Officer and Chair of the Yemen Mine Awareness Association, Shafika Saed and Agmal, members of the Yemen Mine Awareness Association, 4 October 1999.
[47] Interview with Major Elzie, 26 November 1999.
[48] Ibid.
[49] Interview with Mr. Ian Mansfield, Mine Action Team Leader, UNDP head office in New York, Geneva, 28 March 2000.
[50] Interview with Phil Lewis, Mine Action Program, Sana’a, 24 November 1999.
[51] Interview with Rashida Al Hamdani, National Demining Committee, 10 April 2000.
[52] National Mine Awareness Education Advisory Group meeting, Speech by Deputy Minister of Information, Sana’a, 28 October 1999.
[53] Interview with Aysha Saed, Program Officer Rädda Barnen and Chair of the Yemen Mine Awareness Association, Aden, 15 February 2000.
[54] Ibid.
[55] Ibid.
[56] For details, see Landmine Monitor Report 1999, p 867.
[57] Yemen Mine Awareness Association and Rädda Barnen, “Landmine UXO Survivor Survey within Three Governorates in the Republic of Yemen,” December 1998.
[58] ADRA, “Report from a Survey on Landmine Accident-Survivors in Al Hodeida Governorate,” 1999; Interview with Sheryl McWilliams, ADRA, 17 February 2000.
[59] Interview with Sheryl McWilliams, ADRA, 17 February 2000.
[60] Ibid.
[61] Interview with Jane Brouillette, Rädda Barnen, 17 February 2000.
[62] Interview with Jane Brouillette, 22 November 1999.