英闻天下——422 Team Clears Mines on Falkland Islands

 　　A group of demining specialists from Zimbabwe are working to remove landmines¹ from the Falkland Islands almost 31-years after the conflict with Argentina.

 

　　20-thousand landmines were left behind after Britain and Argentina fought a war over the islands in 1982, also known as the Malvinas islands to Argentina.

 

　　Phillimon Gonamombe, is the Operations Manager for the demining team:

 

　　"I am very much proud because this is humanitarian². We want to help the people. People not to be injured because we know, after years, kids would like to walk everywhere. Maybe some of the people who would have got the histories of these areas, would be gone. So we want to remove the threat from the community."

 

　　While some 5-thousand landmines have been cleared since the war ended, there are still many more to de-activate.

 

　　The UK government has the legal responsibility to remove the landmines placed by Argentine forces during the 72-day war.

 

　　Thirty-six specialists make up the Zimbabwe team, all of whom are working for British company BACTEC International.

 

　　It is their third tour on the Islands clearing mines.

1 landmines   

潜在的冲突； 地雷，投伞水雷( landmine的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The treaty bans the use production and trade of landmines. 该条约规定，禁止使用地雷相关产品及贸易。
• One of the weapon's of special concern was landmines. 在引起人们特别关注的武器中就有地雷。

2 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。