Humanitarian Demining Engineer Battalion No.4, starts the work on a dangerous area of 22,656 square meters of land, in the sector of Caño Ovejas in the municipality of Mapiripán, in the department of Meta, according to studies conducted by the Unit, with the purpose of conducting humanitarian demining operations and present territories free of anti-personnel mines, unexploded ordnance and booby traps, with the implementation of the three demining techniques manual, with dogs and mechanic.
Simultaneously with this important work, the National Army trained a group of its men as facilitators in antipersonnel mine risk education, implementing a campaign aimed at civilians, to teach the families about safe behavior, in order to prevent incidents involving explosive devices. In the same way, providing recommendations on the displacements they make daily and information on places that they walk by confident, without fear of being victims of this problem. All of this inviting inhabitants to give timely information, in any situation that puts at risk their safety and good physical condition.
There are more than 600 men and women of the Humanitarian Demining Engineer Battalion No.4, which has presented 58 municipalities free of contamination of anti-personnel mines, clearing more than a million square metres, by the destruction of 242 explosive devices and the investigation of 852 events, benefiting more than 1,252,686 inhabitants in the departments of Meta, Casanare, Vaupés, Guainía, and Cundinamarca.
In the department of Meta for this 2022 it is projected to work of humanitarian demining in the municipalities of Vista Hermosa, Mesetas, San Luis de Cubarral, San Juan de Arama and Mapiripán, Meta, where troops have already begun teaching the native and indigenous communities on prevention of the risk of mines, it is worth remembering that the department of Meta has 1,142 victims by explosive devices, what compels troops to accomplish the mission of saving lives.
