Cuba

Casualties and Victim Assistance

Last updated: 22 September 2015

Casualties Overview

All known casualties by end 2014

11 mine/explosive remnants of war (ERW) casualties (2 killed; 9 injured)

Casualties in 2014

0 (2013: 5)

2014 casualties by outcome

0 (2013: 0 killed; 5 injured)

2014 casualties by device type

0

 

The Monitor did not identify any mine or ERW casualties in 2014 in Cuba. The last reported casualties were in 2013, when a 48-year-old man sustained severe injuries when attempting to dismantle an ERW in his home and sell it for scrap in Puerto Padre. The explosion also injured two other adults and two children.[1] Between 1999 and the end of 2014, the Monitor identified a total of 11 mine casualties (two persons killed and nine injured) in Cuba.

Cuba has a free and universal healthcare system. The Cuban Association of Physically Disabled Persons (Asociación Cubana de Limitados Físico-Motores, ACLIFIM) has provided a support network for persons with physical disabilities.[2] As of March 2013, it represented some 74,000 members.[3]



[1]Explosión de artefacto militar olvidado causa heridas graves a varias personas en Puerto Padre” (“Explosion of a forgotten military artifact injures seriously several people in Puerto Padre”), Diario de Cuba, 18 December 2013.

[2] ICBL, Landmine Monitor Report 2006: Toward a Mine-Free World (Ottawa: Mines Action Canada: July 2006).

[3] ACLIFIM, “Estadisticas” (“Statistics”), 9 January 2015.