Morocco
Casualties and Victim Assistance
Casualties
In 2015, 14 mine casualties were identified in the Kingdom of Morocco by the Geneva Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Anti-vehicle mines (AVM) project. All casualties occurred in antivehicle mine incidents. One person was killed and the other 13 were injured.[1] Three mine/ERW casualties were identified in 2011.[2] Before the casualties reported in 2011, the last mine/ERW casualties recorded in Morocco occurred in 2008.[3]
The total number of mine/ERW casualties in Morocco is not known. Morocco reported 28 casualties for 2016, including six people killed and 22 injured. However these included casualties in the area of Western Sahara.[4] Morocco reported 2,536 mine/ERW casualties (831 persons killed; 1,705 injured) from 1975 to the end of 2012.[5] No information was provided as to whether these casualties occurred in Morocco or in Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara.[6]
Morocco has reported having government programs to provide for the economic and social reintegration of landmine survivors.[7]
Morocco ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in April 2009.
[1] Casualty data provided by email from Ursign Hofmann, Policy Advisor, GICHD, 11 July 2016. See also, GICHD-SIPRI, “Anti-Vehicle Mine Incidents Map,” undated.
[2] “Un mort et un blessé dans une explosion à Assa Zag” (“One dead and one injured in antivehicle mine blast in Assa Zag”), Bladi.net, 14 November 2011; and “Un américain meurt dans l’explosion d’une mine au sud du Maroc” (“One American killed in antivehicle mine explosion in south Morocco”), Bladi.net, 26 October 2011.
[3] Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor analysis of casualty data provided by email from Tammy Hall, Senior Technical Advisor, UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (Mission des Nations Unies pour l'organisation d'un référendum au Sahara occidental, MINURSO) Mine Action Coordination Centre, 29 June 2009.
[4] Voluntary Article 7 Report (for calendar year 2015), Form I.
[5] Voluntary Article 7 Report (for calendar year 2012), Form I.
[6] Statement of Morocco, Mine Ban Treaty Intersessional Meetings, Session on Victim Assistance, Geneva, 23 May 2012. For more information on casualties and victim assistance in Western Sahara see the Western Sahara area profile for 2011–2012, available on the Monitor website (then navigate to the archives).
[7] Statement of Morocco, Mine Ban Treaty Intersessional Meetings, Session on Victim Assistance, Geneva, 24 May 2012.