Jordan Mine Action

Jordan is one of many countries who suffer from mines. Where these mines intended all over the north and west frontiers, these mines laid in the past to protect the borders against external threats but Jordan has never used scattered mines, unmarked fields, all minefields are marked and documented. There are estimated up to 300,000 landmines buried in Jordan soil. There are estimated up to several thousand mine victims, and there continue to be civilian and military causalities each year. Recent reports say that increasingly, Jordanian deminers from the Royal Corps of Engineers are at risk as they do painstaking work of clearing mines throughout the country. The injured will need life-long rehabilitative and prosthetic care. Jordan started demining on February 15, 1993 on three main tracks, southern Jordan valley, northern Jordan valley and southern region frontier but due to the logistic complications, the whole operation was centralized to the Royal Corps of Engineers, where it was easy to control the efforts exerted and provide all the basic requirements 'general safety equipments, mine sweepers, loaders and bulldozers' ;. The demining process will be carried out over 5 phases, Jordan so far removed good percent of phase I and II, and the entire number of mines dug up has come up to 96,650 mines. Complying with the transparency measures, Jordan has set a plan through which all the stockpiled anti-personnel mines will be completely demolished over a period of three years, where a comprehensive mine awareness program will be launched via different means of mass media to caution the people to the dangers of mines.