{"id":6219,"date":"2024-07-12T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawai.li\/fsd\/a-mined-cemetery-rehabilitated-in-iraq\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T09:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:59:08","slug":"a-mined-cemetery-rehabilitated-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/a-mined-cemetery-rehabilitated-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"A mined cemetery rehabilitated in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, Kubaiba is once again at peace. Although the village has not yet regained its original population of 2500, inhabitants are gradually returning and rebuilding their lives. However, nearly all the buildings and infrastructure are in ruins, and part of the village is still mined. <\/p>\n\n

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A resident of Kubaiba speaks with an FSD team about recent events in his village.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

The cemetery, where the thirty-five mine victims are buried, was until recently littered with improvised explosive devices. The path to the cemetery was completely mined, preventing families from paying their respects to their loved ones.<\/p>\n\n

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Thirty-five victims of improvised mines laid by the Islamic State group are buried in the cemetery of Kubaiba, a village in north-eastern Iraq.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

FSD demining teams began clearing mines in the village of Kubaiba in April 2024. To date, one-fifth of the mined area has been verified and mapped, and more than 110 improvised landmines and explosive remnants of war have been removed. Notably, the cemetery has now been cleared of mines and is being restored, allowing families to pay their respects once again.<\/p>\n\n

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An FSD deminer inspects the cemetery of Kubaiba with his metal detector.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

But the work is not yet complete. Around twenty FSD deminers are still carefully inspecting the village, centimetre by centimetre, so that residents can move around safely again and begin to look to the future with hope.<\/p>\n\n

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Interview with Olivier Shu \u2013 La Ligne de c\u0153ur (RTS La Premi\u00e8re)<\/h3>\n

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Today, Kubaiba is once again at peace. Although the village has not yet regained its original population of 2500, inhabitants are gradually returning and rebuilding their lives. However, nearly all the buildings and infrastructure are in ruins, and part of the village is still mined. The cemetery, where the thirty-five mine victims are buried, was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,101],"news_country_category":[88],"custom_post_format":[145],"class_list":["post-6219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landmines-and-explosive-remnants","category-humanitarian-demining","news_country_category-irak","custom_post_format-news-from-the-field"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6364,"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions\/6364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"news_country_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_country_category?post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"custom_post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_post_format?post=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}