16 Oct 2022

Tony Connell: Clearing mines and unexploded munitions

From Sunday Morning, 10:05 am on 16 October 2022

More than 4000 people are killed by landmines every year. Nearly half of those are children.

When a conflict ends, mines and unexploded bombs, shells and cluster-munitions continue to kill and maim.  

Former Kiwi Soldier Tony Connell is the Ukraine Country Director for the Swiss Foundation for Mine Action, a non-governmental organisation whose goal is to clear mines and unexploded munitions around the world.

This photograph taken in Izyum, eastern Ukraine on September 29, 2022, shows a landmine warning sign next to a road, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Juan BARRETO / AFP)

Photo: JUAN BARRETO