Bosnians still being killed in landmine accidents

Although it's probable or possible that undertaking a massive effort to demine (if there's such a term) Bosnia could be costly if not time consuming it's still imperative that they ensure the country is "liberated" from landmines so that hopefully such tragedies can be averted.

Serbian journalism calls this an accident whilst it is in fact ongoing murder by serbs that placed these mines.

The biggest problem here is.....you guessed it ,corruption. Three years ago I was in western Bosnia visiting my grandad's grave. As I approached I noticed a white,possibly UN? vehicle on the hilltop by the cemetery it was next to an area that had been cordoned off by blue and white tape. The kind of tape you see at a major police incident. I asked my local companion what are they doing? "Peru pare" ("laundering money") was his sarcastic reply. I asked what he meant and he said that they were "mine clearing". I found this very disturbing as the previous year I had walked over that same piece of ground!! "Don't worry" my companion said "what would you rather do mine clear where you know there are no mines or somewhere you might get killed" I was flabbergasted,but regrettably not surprised, these people are getting paid huge sums of money to do this "dangerous" work whilst in actual fact they knew perfectly well there were no mines there at all.

If the landmines were sitting above oil wells, the west would have cleared them long ago

May Bosnia be as free from mines as New Brunswick is one day!

Danilo the province of New Brunswick doesn't have land mines to my knowledge.Again to my knowledge land mines are nonexistant throughout Canada.

"Serbian journalism calls this an accident whilst it is in fact ongoing murder by serbs that placed these mines."
(zagortenej, 10 January 2014 18:27)

And I would call it idiocy or suicidality to collect scrap metal on a MARKED mine field.

zagortenej with all due respect, Bosnian Muslims also put up mine fields. Both sides are guilty.

Serbian journalism calls this an accident whilst it is in fact ongoing murder by serbs that placed these mines.

May Bosnia be as free from mines as New Brunswick is one day!

Danilo the province of New Brunswick doesn't have land mines to my knowledge.Again to my knowledge land mines are nonexistant throughout Canada.

zagortenej with all due respect, Bosnian Muslims also put up mine fields. Both sides are guilty.

If the landmines were sitting above oil wells, the west would have cleared them long ago

The biggest problem here is.....you guessed it ,corruption. Three years ago I was in western Bosnia visiting my grandad's grave. As I approached I noticed a white,possibly UN? vehicle on the hilltop by the cemetery it was next to an area that had been cordoned off by blue and white tape. The kind of tape you see at a major police incident. I asked my local companion what are they doing? "Peru pare" ("laundering money") was his sarcastic reply. I asked what he meant and he said that they were "mine clearing". I found this very disturbing as the previous year I had walked over that same piece of ground!! "Don't worry" my companion said "what would you rather do mine clear where you know there are no mines or somewhere you might get killed" I was flabbergasted,but regrettably not surprised, these people are getting paid huge sums of money to do this "dangerous" work whilst in actual fact they knew perfectly well there were no mines there at all.

"Serbian journalism calls this an accident whilst it is in fact ongoing murder by serbs that placed these mines."
(zagortenej, 10 January 2014 18:27)

And I would call it idiocy or suicidality to collect scrap metal on a MARKED mine field.

Although it's probable or possible that undertaking a massive effort to demine (if there's such a term) Bosnia could be costly if not time consuming it's still imperative that they ensure the country is "liberated" from landmines so that hopefully such tragedies can be averted.