Kolumbien: Dreimal so viele Minenopfer wie im Vorjahr
Die Trendwende schien geschafft: Einst gehörte Kolumbien zu den Ländern mit den meisten Minenopfern pro Jahr, doch in den letzten Jahren waren die Zahlen stark zurückgegangen. Leider meldet die kolumbianische Kampagne gegen Landminen für 2018 eine Verdreifachung der Anzahl neuer Minenopfer: Von 56 auf 180. (auf Englisch)
Quelle: REUTERS
The number of people killed or wounded by landmines in Colombia more than tripled in 2018 to 180, a landmine monitoring group said on Wednesday, as militants occupying territory abandoned by demobilized leftist rebels have expanded their use of the weaponry.
The casualties, compared with 56 in 2017, were mostly in jungle and mountain areas previously controlled by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels, who demobilized last year under a peace deal with the government to end five decades of war.
As FARC members returned to civilian life, much of the drug trafficking and illegal mining territory they previously controlled has been occupied or fought over by criminal gangs, dissident rebels who did not lay down arms and the smaller rebel group the National Liberation Army (ELN).
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