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 Findings of International Campaign to Ban Landmines Advocacy Mission to Colombia 9 15 October 2011 Executive Summary: Between 9-15 October 2011, at the invitation of the Colombia Campaign Against Landmines (CCCM), the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) carried out an advocacy mission in Colombia. A central purpose of the mission was to gather information about the high casualty rate from landmines among manual coca eradicators in order to determine the role of the ICBL, in cooperation with CCCM, in addressing this issue. The advocacy mission included a total of three days in Bogota visiting with government officials and representatives of non-governmental and international organizations. 1 Interviews included visits to the Colombian Mine Action authority (PAICMA) , the Public Defenders’ Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Police unit responsible for Manual Eradication, the Organization of American States Mine Action Program (OAS AICMA), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the United Nations Mine Action Team (UNMAT) for Colombia and the Narcotics Affairs Section of the United States Embassy. The ICBL consultant also traveled to two other departments of Colombia, Caldas and Magdalena, to meet with coca eradicators who are survivors of landmine accidents that occurred during the manual eradication process. Based on the findings of this mission, the ICBL has concluded that the Colombian manual eradication program puts civilians at risk of mines and that, thus far, the government has not been able to effectively protect citizens from this risk. In addition, the ICBL has been unable to identify any means to effectively protect citizens under the current conditions of the manual eradication program. Therefore, it is the position of the ICBL that civilians should not be 1 Multiple attempts to meet with representatives of the Colombia Program for Illicit Crops (PCI) were unsuccessful.

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