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With the financial support from Caritas Germany, Catholic Office for Emergency Relief and Refugees (COERR) has organized in May 2010 the Mine Risk Education training (MRE) activities to affected Thai villagers in 3 mine risk villages located along Thai-Cambodian border in Aranyaprathet District, Srakaew Province. The 3 villages are: 1. Phunamkliang village (between 11-12 May 2010); 2. Don-Gnu village (between 20-21 May 2010) and 3. Pa-Rai village (between 26-27 May 2010).
These 3 villages are located along Sripen road which is the strategic road along the Thai-Cambodian border where many active landmines still remain undestroyed. The 2 day MRE training activity in each village aimed at educating the people about the danger of landmines. In addition, COERR also invited the officials from the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security to give a lecture on the rights of the handicapped people.
Besides a team of Public Health officer and nurse demonstrated to the trainees the technique to provide first aid treatment to the victims injured by landmines.
Thailand signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997, ratified on 27 November 1998 and became a State Party on 1 May 1999. Thailand is affected by landmines as a result of conflicts on its borders with Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), Myanmar and Malaysia. The Landmine Impact survey (LIS) in 2001 identified 530 communities in 27 of 76 provinces and more than 500,000 people as mine-affected.
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