Roles of Civilian Communities on the Humanitarian

Demining: “Left over Landmines, Humanitarian

Quest Everyone Concerning.”

By

Vasu Chanarat

Weera Polwadana, Suphakrit Sopikul, and Vicha

Wanadurongkawan

Background

• Landmines remain near borders of Thailand.

• Preventing further injuries is needed attention.

• The Thailand Mine Action Center (TMAC) recorded in

2001:

• 27 Provinces 934 Locations

• 2,556.7 sq.km. 3,469 Human Casualties

Mine Action

1.Mine Awareness

• Warning materials reminding the children and the

people who live or work on such areas are required to

distribute.

• The leaflets suggesting not to pick up odd items found

on the ground are no less important.

2.Personal Protective Equipment (PPE.)

• Risk management involves the identification, analysis,

assessment and removal (or reduction) of risk.

• The term implies dominance and control of risk, and

the application of agreed processes to achieve

consistent results.

3.Mine Victims and Disabilities Support

• The number of Thai mine Victims is approaching more

than 3,468 casualties.

• The treatment for an individual casualty is well taking

care of.

• Unfortunately, there are many disabilities support

programs that need to be continued.

What have been done

• TMAC found that one approaching alternatives is to

open the coming help form NGO humanitarian

contributions.

• In Thailand such involvements by civilian communities

are MOM, PRO, and General chatichai Choonhavan

Foundations.

• In Chanatburee province, there are 30 sites, 8,801,476

sq. meters of the left over landmines.

• More communities are getting involed by R&D.

Objectives

• To follow up the routine tasks of TMAC’s mine action

activities.

• To establish the workable organization and the strategic

planning for the community volment in mine action

programs.

• To perform mine action programs under the limitation

of civilian abilities.

The risk study from Plumb of Blast

Works that have been done can be summarized as follows;

PPE ; Much of works on the Personal Protective Equipment have been researched;

# Personal Protective Cloth, Helmet and Face Shield

Personal Protected shoes (Pan Blast Boots)

• A pair of the pan Blast Boot is the shoes capable of

reducing the blast reaction produced by M14 Personal

mine.

• To preserve the foot and leg from the damage under a

condition of pressure-heat-gas and the fragmentations

• A pair of the Pan Blast Boot weighs only 1.1 kilogram.

M14-(29g of Tetryl)

Blast results on the simulation leg comparing between Blat Boot and the combat boot under M14 trials

Before blast

Fatal Afterblast

Result of combat boot on the blast trial

Pan blast boot with the blast trial result

Foot deform but no tear off After blast

Most of the simulation legs after blast can be prevented from the heavy injury

Blast Boot

Wear Test on the slipper slope area

Mine detector system; research and develope by Mahanakorn University

A The set of mine detector system and view of operation

Encountered Problems

* The budget funding.

* The local area community basic mine awareness

background knowledge.

Conclusion

* Mine action programs for all of the remaining mined

areas need to be urgently concerned by all communities.

* The proceeding steps may initialize with the primary

task, that is, to form the prototype of the community mine

action team arming with the project plan, the operating

tools, equipments, and trained personnel.

Suggestions

1.Calculating and requesting for approval from TMAC the cost to establish humanitarian mine action projects

and the operating cost.

2.Raising and/or requesting fund for the needed operating tools and equipments.

3.Initiating the basic mine awareness propagation program and the mine victims and disabilities program to

the selected communities.

4.Recruiting and training the community mine action team personnel.

THANK YOU

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