報告稱：地雷使用罕見但仍造成大量傷亡

An international landmine watchdog says new uses of the weapon are "extremely rare" but that fighting in Afghanistan, Libya, Ukraine and Yemen has led to a second consecutive year of high casualties.

The International Campaign to Ban Landmines said in an annual report Thursday there were 8,605 casualties, including 2,089 deaths, from mines in 2016. That includes improvised explosive devices and unexploded ordnance that are triggered like mines.

Of those casualties, 78 percent were civilians, and the total included the most child casualties ever recorded. They took place in 52 countries.

Under a 1999 international treaty, countries agree to not use or produce antipersonnel mines, destroy their existing stockpiles, provide assistance to mine victims and clear their territory of mines within 10 years of joining the pact.

On Wednesday, the ICBL welcomed Sri Lanka as the 163rd country to be fully bound by the treaty and said it hopes others in the region will join as well.

Thursday's report said Myanmar and Syria had the only government forces that actively planted mines during the past year. Neither is a party to the mine ban treaty.一個監督地雷使用的國際組織說，地雷使用情況極爲罕見，但是阿富汗、利比亞、烏克蘭和也門的衝突中地雷連續第二年造成大量人員傷亡。

國際禁止地雷運動在星期四公佈的年度報告中說，地雷在2016年造成8605人傷亡，其中2089人喪生。這個數字包括自製炸彈以及像地雷一樣造成人員傷亡的未爆彈藥。

地雷造成的喪生人員中，78%是平民，其中兒童人數爲歷來最高。統計數字基於對52個國家的調查。

1999年一項國際條約的簽約國同意不再使用或生產殺傷人員的地雷，銷燬庫存，爲地雷受害者提供幫助，並在簽署這項條約10年之內清除領土內的所有地雷。

國際禁止地雷運動星期三歡迎斯里蘭卡成爲全面加入這項條約的第163個國家，並希望該區域其它國家也加入條約。

星期四公佈的報告說，在所有國家中，只有緬甸和敘利亞的政府軍在2016年仍然埋設新的地雷。這兩個國家都沒有簽署禁止地雷的國際條約。