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Slideshow: Healing the wounds
. Documenting MAG's work in early 2011. |
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Business as usual for female deminers on Women's Day
International Women’s Day is like any other for MAG Sri Lanka’s Mine Action Team “MAT 10”, whose eight deminers, medic and deputy team leader are all female. [8 March 2012]
Community rebirth in war-torn Mullaitivu
A report from Suthanthipuram village, where MAG’s work has enabled more than 2,000 people who fled the civil war to return home. (30 September 2011)
VIDEO: MAG Sri Lanka's all-female team
The story of MAG’s all-female team in Sri Lanka and its vital work, as featured in Al Jazeera’s “Witness” programme. (12 May 2011)
High-impact landmine clearance
Sinnapandivirichchan was abandoned during the civil war. Now, development of the village is well underway. A new school is being built, shops are opening up and MAG teams are clearing more land for agriculture. (1 April 2011)
MAG Sri Lanka’s female deminers tell their stories
Ahead of International Women's Day 2011 on March 8th, themed ‘Pathway to decent work for women’, we profile the members of MAG Sri Lanka’s all-female Mine Action Team. (1 March 2011)
Supporting the safe return and resettlement of IDPs
MAG has trained 154 staff from Sri Lankan non-governmental organisations in Mine Risk Education, to reduce the risk of death and injuries from landmine and unexploded ordnance. (14 December 2010)
A day in the life – Tracking down minefields
MAG is carrying out an emergency survey to ensure the tens of thousands of people housed in temporary camps can return home safely. Sri Lankan Community Liaison staff explain how this is being done. (1 July 2010)
School reopenings an essential part of conflict recovery
When the conflict in Sri Lanka restarted in 2007, the effects were felt at Mulliyavalai Kalaimahal Vithiyalayam school in the heartland of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam territory. (2 June 2010)
PHOTO REPORT: The journey home
Seven-year-old Ahalya, together with her and many other families, fled Sinnapandivirichchan village in April 2007. This month, after MAG had removed 1,260 landmines and 12 items of unexploded ordnance from the area, they were able to return home. (19 May 2010)
Families return home after bomb-making factory is cleared
Tharmalingam had little knowledge of the deadly bomb-making factory 700 metres from the family home in the heart of his village. (18 May 2010)
Palliakuli village, a year on
Twelve months after the end of the civil war, 74-year-old Rasaiya Ragasingham and his family are rebuilding their lives on land cleared of landmines and unexploded ordnance by MAG. (17 May 2010)
Returning home
“MAG is currently clearing my paddy field area and once it is safe we will start farming again, as only through cultivation can we begin to develop and increase our income.” (1 February 2010)
Rebuilding futures in Adampan
After almost three years living in camps, 123 families have been able to return to their homes in Sri Lanka’s Rice Bowl region and given a real opportunity to begin rebuilding their lives after years of war, thanks to MAG. (1 February 2010)
Rehabilitating the Rice Bowl
Seventy-seven families are scheduled to return to Pallaikuli village following MAG's clearance of landmines and unexploded ordnance there. (16 November 09)
MAG contributes to national reconstruction, growth and stability
MAG is helping to create a more secure environment for the people of Sri Lanka, building safer communities and working to improve the futures of people affected by explosive remnants of conflict. (22 October 09)
Increased funding helps communities
MAG’s operations in Sri Lanka have been given increased funding to more quickly release safe land for people to return home. Four months after the end of the civil war hundreds of thousands of people are still living in makeshift displacement camps in the north of the country, waiting to leave. (7 August 09)
Returning home in safety
When a MAG Community Liaison team first went to Marathanmadhu in April 2009, the village had been deserted for over 18 months. Sixty-year-old Mr Soosai Marathin accompanied them to inform the team about what happened in the village during the conflict – it was the first time he had been back since September 2007. (6 August 09)
MAG steps up its clearance efforts
As the Government of Sri Lanka feel that an end to the war is in sight, areas of land are now being released for mine clearance. (15 May 09)
Supporting returnees in Mannar District
Four hundred families to return home after MAG surveys five villages in Mannar District, northern Sri Lanka. MAG now plans to move into other areas to continue supporting the return of internally displaced people through survey and clearance of villages. (20 April 09)
High Commissioner visits clearance site
The British High Commissioner in Sri Lanka, Dr Peter Hayes, has visited an area MAG is clearing in Pankuneveli, Batticaloa District. (5 February 09)
Contributing to development, supporting peace-building
MAG's principle impact in Sri Lanka in 2008 was to facilitate the resettlement of internally displaced persons, supporting the safe return of families to former conflict areas and encouraging economic regeneration. (12 January 09)
MAG's impact in Batticaloa
MAG's work in the district identified as having the highest casualty rate from accidents resulting from remnants of conflict is vital. (27 October 08)
MAG in the media: Sunday Observer
MAG featured in an article titled “The humane act of demining” this
weekend in Sri Lanka’s widest-read English language newspaper. (16 June 08)
Clearance assists 30,000 IDPs
The areas cleared since MAG restarted operations Sri Lanka in September 2007 will allow more then 30,000 internally displaced persons to return to their communities. (29 January 08)
Mechanical clearance
MAG use a Bozena mini-flail to perform area reduction and quality assurance tasks on land cleared manually. (3 November 06)
Landmine and UXO clearance
MAG's landmine and unexploded ordnance clearance activities have supported the resettlement programme in the Vanni region, where a significant number of people were displaced as a result of the tsunami. (3 November 06)
Mine Risk Education
MAG has supported White Pigeon in their MRE activities, enabling resident and returning populations to live as safely as possible in a contaminated environment. (3 November 06)
Progress in the Vanni region
MAG has been working in the Vanni region since 2002 – and in spite of the recent deterioration in the security situation, significant progress has been made. (3 November 06)
Landmine tragedy
Just three months ago, 12-tear-old Kokulan was playing with his sister and a friend in Pulipanjakal village when an object lying on the ground caught his eye. (13 January 06)
Mechanical clearance in Vanni and Batticaloa
The support provided by the Japanese government in Vanni and Batticaloa has had a significant impact on MAG's demining efforts in these regions. (1 August 05)
Night-time MRE
Thanks to generous funding from the One Sri Lanka Foundation, MAG has started a new Mine Risk Education initiative in northern Sri Lanka. (1 August 05)
Stockpile destruction
A huge explosion was recently heard over a radius of 25km in the Vanni region was the culmination of several months of hard work conducted to clear a large area of land of unexploded ordnance. (1 June 05)
Tsunami update
An update on the tasks undertaken in the area of Battacaloa in the six months since the tsunami. (1 June 05)
From bloodshed to hope
MAG deployed two Mine Action Teams to Vellavely and worked for six months to clear a massive 35,600 square metres of land - the size of nine football pitches. (1 May 05)
MAG unites Sri Lankan forces After tsunami
One of the few positive stories to come out of the disaster is the co-operation between the Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation, its Humanitarian Demining Unit and the Sri Lankan military. (1 February 05)
Effects of the tsunami
Three teams have been tirelessly supporting the clear-up, using MAG vehicles to ferry the dead from the disaster area and transport food to the temporary camps set up in schools and public buildings. (1 January 05)
Clearing church grounds
MAG destroyed all UXOs in an area of over 15,000 sq/m around Pullaveli church and the approach roads, to enable its first religious festival for over 14 years. (1 June 04)
Bozena mini-flail
Financed by the Government of Japan, MAG has introduced a Bozena mini-flail into its operations to increase the speed at which land can be returned to the local community. (1 October 03)
Cattle herders
In Ratnapuri village, Mannar District, the impact of landmines on the cattle base of this community has already reached such a level it threatens their economic survival. (1 September 02)
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