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Masam surveys lands, racing against the clock to try to overtake time in its mission to clear landmines in Yemen. Masam’s vital humanitarian role in clearing the death traps from Yemen then destroying and demolishing them, made this project put all its efforts in this mission. Every cleared landmine means saving a life of a human somewhere in this land afflicted by the terrorism buried underground, and Yemenis from all the regions await for this project to set its feet close to them, so life can return as it used to be.
This is what project Masam did in the region of Al Ashirah in Muazza’ directorate, where the project’s teams are working hard to enable the inhabitants of this region to return again to their homes and farms that the Houthis’ landmines and explosive devices forced them to leave, after killing and wounding so many of them, the latest victim being a girl who was less than 14 years old.
In this context, the leader of team 25 Masam Engineer Abdelkhaleq indicated in an exclusive interview with Masam’s media office that his team was able, since it arrived in the region, to secure vast areas, starting from major roads and sub-roads, then the school and its surroundings. The team is working now to clear and secure civilians’ homes, farms and grasslands.
This team was able so far to clear 18 anti-armor landmines from the villages’ entrances, and is still continuing its humanitarian mission in the region where the team is working hard to secure the region of Al Ashirah in order to enable the displaced to return to their homes and reform their lands.
Team 25 made many achievements that Engineer Abdelkhaleq shed a light on by saying that they were made thanks to the sessions that its members received from the experts of project Masam, which helped a lot in strengthening their skills and past experiences, and had a positive impact on the team’s performance and work, noting that team 25 Masam was able since it started its mission in project Masam to clear more than 18 thousand landmines and explosive devices.
Project Masam’s Operations Room announced also that the project’s teams cleared during the 4th week of July 1186 landmines, unexploded ordnance and explosive devices, which brings the total of what was cleared since the 30th of June until the 24th of July to 4579.
For his part, the Managing Director of project Masam Mr Ousama Algosaibi indicated in a statement published by Masam’s media office that the total number of what Masam’s teams cleared since the launch of the project until the 24th of July reached 176310 landmines, unexploded ordnance and explosive devices.
Mr Algosaibi added in his statement that the teams were able during last week to clear 284127 square meters of lands, which brings the total size of lands that were cleared since the 26th of June to the 24th of July to 1.254.126 square meters.
And in total, Masam’s teams cleared 12.552.685 square meters of Yemeni lands that were mined with landmines, unexploded ordnance and explosive devices.
To secure an environment that will be free of landmines in the future, project Masam had a different view about dealing with cleared landmines and unexploded ordnance left behind as war remnants, as the project’s mission doesn’t focus only on clearing landmines and explosives of various kinds, it works also on destroying them completely according to a system that project Masam follows to the letter, in order to guarantee that nobody will use them again in the future.
And in an exclusive interview with Masam’s media office, the international expert Dr. Zauba Alrawi asserted that Masam’s teams in the western coast carried out until today 24 operations to destroy and demolish thousands of landmines and unexploded ordnance, which brings the total of demolition operations carried out by Masam’s clearing teams so far to 69 destruction and demolition operations in Yemen.
Alrawi said that “We are looking forward to make more achievements this year, and we are doing out best to secure Yemen and protect Yemenis from the danger of landmines”.