Myanmar: Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Landmines and Instability in Myanmar

Aug 12, 2019 | Michael Hart, Geopolitical Monitor
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Volatile remote border regions around Myanmar’s long perimeter, which are heavily contaminated with landmines as a result of unrelenting violence since the mid-20th century. The 2015 election victory of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD), after initial reforms introduced by the former ruling military junta in 2011, brought hope that insurgencies would die out and pave the way for landmine removal. Four years on, de-mining has still not started.