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Mala is an 18-year-old Eritrean refugee. She was fleeing the war in Eritrea by crossing the border into Sudan when the truck she was in hit an anti-vehicle mine. All 17 other people on the truck were killed and she suffered severe injuries including loosing both her legs and her right eye. Many vehicles containing refugees were destroyed in the same manner. Mala’s future is bleak. She sits in a hut living on hand-outs with what is left of her family and is the subject of public scorn and ridicule.
A conservative estimate of landmine survivors in the world today could well be over 500,000 (Landmine Monitor Report; 2006).
Photo: Sudan, John Rodsted, Deadly Legacy Exhibition
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