Photos of Landmine Victims
                                                                                                                                                      

Treatment of a land mine victim. (Source: Free Burma Rangers, 2003)

 

In this photo a medic is removing landmine shrapnel from a village girl's leg. The SPDC soldiers have placed landmines throughout Karen State, in particular around villages from which people have been forced to flee, to prevent their return home. (Source: Free Burma Rangers, 2003)

On 21 April 2003, Saw Hser Paw, 30 years old, stepped on a landmine hidden on a trail near the village of Thu Kha, on the Burma side of the border southwest of the Thai village of Thong Pha Phum. His foot was severely damaged, and a Karen medic was forced to amputate it.

Subsequently, he was assisted to a hospital, where he had a second amputation below the knee. Unfortunately, complications with this surgery developed and he had to have a further amputation above the knee.

He has therefore suffered a series of four severe physical and mental traumas, each one of which has also led to a dramatic reduction is his future prospects for mobility.

(Source: Free Burma Rangers, 2003)

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