Deadly Legacy Haunts Kurdistan

"Victims claim government efforts to clear millions of landmines are ineffective.

By Jamal Penjweni in Sulaimaniyah (IWPR)

Though much of Kurdistan has enjoyed peace since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, war has left a lethal legacy concealed in its fields, mountains and villages.

Around 3,400 minefields cover an estimated 890 square kilometres - three landmines for every two people in Kurdistan. Thousands may have been defused, but many more remain live, and the casualty toll in Iraqi Kurdistan since 1991 - when the region gained de facto autonomy from Saddam’s rule – is put at 3,941 dead and 8,771 injured."
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