Atheer Raheem
"It was more days ominous in my life, and despite the fact that I then was only eleven but I will remember him well, came out usual to graze sheep on open land near our house and adjacent to the border with Kuwait, suddenly an explosion filled echoed throughout the place, I did not realize the time What happened and what is the source of the explosion, all I knew was that I was lying on the ground I can not stand "with the words and tone filled with sadness I spoke, "Najla Khalil" with the 30-year-old, from the day the mine exploded, leaving them permanently disabled in one of her legs.
Remember, "Najla Khalil" that day and the pain and anguish on her face, Badian, saying: "It was a dark day and a turning point in my life towards the worst."
Fading dreams of childhood:
She adds, "Najla" that the physical condition of her family were not allowed to conduct operations in the affected leg, which ultimately led to the "amputation of a large part as a result of the worsening of my health." After a long silence, "says Alice," "vanished after losing my childhood dreams of one of my legs, which are unable to even play with my friends."
Were not mine problem in Iraq is living testimony to the legacy of the long wars fought by this country, but was still stumbling to the development of the 15 Iraqi provinces.
The enemy lurks:
For his part, says director of education in the General Organization for Mine Action in Iraq, Ibrahim al-Aziz, "The number of mine victims varies from region to region; is rising in some places, the lack of awareness among residents of villages and rural areas and lack of awareness of the importance of signals indicative of the location of mines, and the decline in other areas as a result of field survey of these areas. "
Was not "Jawad Ismail," who was working in a British company to disarm the mines, knows that his career will take part of his body, and will be the same one the victims of this silent enemy Almitrbes residents of southern Iraq, becoming wheelchair -sitters for the remaining days of his life.
Work leads to destruction:
It was a summer day in 2006 is different from the rest of his life. Went out that morning, to his usual practice. During the removal of a mine explosion severely sending a cloud of smoke covered the scene. Once the cloud lifted up pant legs Alambtortan, and scattered some of the fingers of the severed hand in the place.
Maps for indicating the location of mines:
Official statistics reveal that an area of 1700 square kilometers of Iraqi soil contaminated with 25 million mines and one million tons of unexploded ordnance after, which together constituted a direct threat to a civilian settlement around 2117 where almost 2.7 million Iraqi citizens. The overall result, which reached the center, revealed that the number of amputees due to landmines in Iraq would range between 80 and 100 thousand people. Adding to the seriousness of the problem of mines in Iraq is the lack of an old military maps indicating the location of the spread of minefields.
It is noteworthy that Iraq's membership in the Organization of the Ottawa Mine Ban obliged to get rid of all the mines in its territory, at the end of 2018 under the laws of the organization, according to the report of the Organization of the United Nations, requires the search for these mines about 19 thousand specialized in the removal; a higher number sixty times the the number currently available. The report reveals that this task requires ten years to get rid of all the mines.
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