{"id":3949,"date":"2022-11-11T13:23:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T13:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectmasam.com\/v2\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2022-11-11T13:23:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T13:23:29","slug":"masam-publishes-report-on-the-deliberate-targeting-of-humanitarian-demining-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/masam-publishes-report-on-the-deliberate-targeting-of-humanitarian-demining-personnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Masam publishes report on the \u2018deliberate\u2019 targeting of humanitarian demining personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Between Autumn 2021 and Spring 2022, humanitarian landmine clearance project Masam\u2019s deminers witnessed a rise in the targeting of demining activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, Yemen\u2019s Houthi militia \u2014 who are designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation by the internationally-recognised Yemeni government-in-exile and the United Nations<\/a> \u2014 were reportedly fitting landmines with something called anti-handling mechanisms that means that if a deminer were to attempt to render a landmine safe, it would explode in his face<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the Houthis have allegedly committed war crimes for their indiscriminate use of banned anti-personnel landmines, their apparent targeting of deminers may also constitute a war crime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To find out why, read Masam’s report, titled Humanitarian demining is not a crime: The \u2018deliberate\u2019 targeting of demining personnel<\/em>, published on Medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Between Autumn 2021 and Spring 2022, humanitarian landmine clearance project Masam\u2019s deminers witnessed a rise in the targeting of demining activities. In short, Yemen\u2019s Houthi militia \u2014 who are designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation by the internationally-recognised Yemeni government-in-exile and the United Nations \u2014 were reportedly fitting landmines with something called anti-handling mechanisms that means that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[344],"class_list":["post-3949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-investigation","category-18","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}