In an incredible, bittersweet success story, Croatia has announced it has freed itself from the scourge of landmines, 31 years after the country’s civil war.
In an incredible, bittersweet success story, Croatia has announced it has freed itself from the scourge of landmines, 31 years after the country’s civil war.
It is extremely unlikely we’re literally free of mines. You can clean up an area, and yet miss a few mines. Mines can sink under ground through time, and reappear again as the soil moves around. People have died in supposedly mine-free areas. Thankfully the numbers have been minimised, but you can never be 100% sure.
In Germany they find and defuse ww2 bombs in lots of city’s every year until today. It’s not even big news.
Came to say exactly this. It is good to see however. Croatia is a beautiful country and people should definitely check it out if they haven’t.
Yeah, the german article I originally read mentioned that, too. But tbh, I was a bit lazy and didn’t want to translate bit by bit with Deepl’s free version 😅