They Returned Home, Landmines Were Waiting: FBR's Program to Remove Landmines in Karenni State

To reach the church, we walked single file. The path was narrow. On either side of us were landmines. The Burma military had bombed the church in 2023. The roof was mostly gone. The walls were cracked and scorched. But the building was still standing, and so the people of this village in Karenni State still used the church. Not because it was safe but because it was theirs, and because there was nowhere else to go. On this day, myself and the Karenni demining team were going there to meet some survivors of landmines - the Karenni leadership had...