Belarus
Casualties and Victim Assistance
Casualties
Casualty Overview
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All known casualties by end 2012 |
6,187 mine/ERW casualties (2,674 killed; 3,513 injured) |
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Casualties in 2012 |
2 (2011: 4) |
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2012 Casualties by outcome |
2 killed (2011: 1 killed; 3 injured) |
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2012 Casualties by device type |
2 ERW |
In 2012, two new explosive remnants of war (ERW) casualties were identified in the Republic of Belarus. In April, a father and son were killed in a tampering incident caused by an unexploded grenade.[1] In 2011 and in 2010, four ERW casualties were reported for each year.[2] No landmine casualties have been reported in Belarus since 2004.
There were at least 6,187 mine/ERW casualties (2,674 killed; 3,513 injured) in Belarus from 1945 to the end of 2012.[3]
Victim Assistance
Most mine/ERW survivors in Belarus were injured by ERW left over from World War II or during military service in Afghanistan in the 1980s. The total number of mine/ERW survivors in Belarus is unknown, and it has not been reported how many of the 3,513 registered survivors are still alive.
There is no specific victim assistance coordination or planning in Belarus. The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection is the main government agency responsible for protecting the rights of persons with disabilities.[4] The Ministry of Health and several other agencies also had a “State Programme on Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons” for the period from 2011 to 2015.[5]
As of 1 October 2013, Belarus had not signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
[1] “N Kobrin Two Men Were Blown Up By Grenade” (translation), 5MIN.BY, 25 April 2012, 5min.by/news/v-kobrine-dvoe-mujchin-pitalis-razobrat-granatu-i-vzorvalis.html, accessed 27 April 2013.
[2] “Four children explode on a shell in Liozneskom” (translation), Vitebsk People’s News, 22 April 2011, news.vitebsk.cc/, accessed 11 April 2012; and Belarus, CCW Protocol V Article 10 Report, Form E, 24 March 2011.
[3] 6,181 casualties reported in Belarus’ CCW Protocol V Article 10 Report, Form E, 24 March 2011. There were four new casualties in 2011 and two in 2012.
[4] “Resolution of the Council of Ministers, Republic of Belarus,”N 1589, 31 October 2001, www.mintrud.gov.by, accessed 25 September 2013.
[5] Ibid., N 1126, 29 June 2010, pravo.by, accessed 25 September 2013.