DUSHANBE, September 13, Asia-Plus - 22 disabled people, who sustained injures in landmine explosions, were taken to the Kharangon resort of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security in the Varzob district today to take a rehabilitation course.  

A source in the Tajik Mine Action Cell (TMAC) told Asia-Plus the disabled people taken to the resort are residents of Ayni, Isfara, Shuroobod, Darvoz and Tojikobod districts.  According to the TMAC source, this two-week rehabilitation course for victims of the landmine explosions is part of the “Anti-Landmine Activity” project run by the UNDP Country Office in Tajikistan and the OSCE Center in Dushanbe.  

For the period from 1992 to 2006, 273 people have been killed and 288 others have been injured in landmine explosions in Tajikistan, according to the source.  According to information from the TMAC, its deminers have cleared 300,000 square meters of the land and discovered and defused more than 2,000 landmines and more than 70 unexploded ordnances over the past two years.