U.S. Global Strategic Network October 21, 2009 published entitled “China to play a good role in Afghanistan,” the article, the article on China for Afghanistan, Iraq to provide humanitarian demining training affirmed the contributions made by the evaluation.The article first said that earlier this year, China began to help the Afghan police training, such activities relatively small size, has been reported in China, but did not raise or lower the Western media’s attention. When China began to help train Afghan deminers of times, it caused the Western media attention. Only in the last year, local Afghan deminers cleared 82,000 stars of anti-personnel mines and 900 anti-tank mines, which should take all mine since 1989, the results of 20%. The local warlords, drug traffickers and the Taliban and other pairs of deminers will not interfere with, mainly because of mine working in all parts of Afghanistan prevail.
Global Strategic Network article says that eight years ago, a monthly average of 140 people by those maimed by landmines in Afghanistan, and now, after a series of demining activities, this figure dropped to about 50 (but is still hurt by mines in the world Most of the countries). In the past 20 years, the mine has been cleaned up more than 500 square miles of land area. De-mining efforts are expected to be completed within the next four years. Minefields that exist when most people can not be cultivated, not grazing livestock, can not pass through. Last year’s de-mining work for more than 500 communities in mine-affected communities from the past out of. Even the local militants have also benefited, as they often are not familiar with the area through the night, when walking at night, they often do not see the cleaning up of the minefields set warning signs.
The article added that donors from abroad for mine-clearance training, mine clearance equipment to pay for the mine clearance team in Afghanistan to pay expenses, the only direct foreign personnel in demining activities in Afghanistan is the technical experts, these experts need to repair the Afghan mine-clearing equipment or for de-mining personnel training in the use of modern demining equipment.
US media articles have also mentioned the Chinese government for Afghanistan, Iraq, the humanitarian de-mining training course organized by the contribution. The article says that foreign demining training are most welcomed, Afghanistan and Iraq soldiers and police officers went to China to conduct mine clearance operations training, which is China (demining assistance) program as part of the process of implementing this plan, China from 15 countries have trained more than 300 mine clearance technicians.
