The HALO Georgia programme has begun non-technical survey (NTS) of two of the five remaining known minefields in Tbilisi Administered Territory (TAT), at Khojali (Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region) and Kadoeti (Mtskheta-Mtianeti region). Located near to the administrative boundary lines with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, these dangerous areas are legacies of armed conflicts in the South Caucasus during the 1990s and early 2000s and have caused multiple human and animal accidents over the decades.
This effort will allow HALO to make assessments about the extent of the contamination in the mined areas and identity socioeconomic and threat factors to the estimated 3,883 people who live or work near the mined areas. This information in turn will inform HALO’s operational and technical plans to clear these areas in 2023 and pave the way for Georgia to become mine free.
