He has worked with the Mine Advisory Group for six years. “Only when the land was being cleared that I understood how we should deal with the mines,” he said. “That’s when I decided to ...

Thavarathnam Pushparani fought on the front lines for the now-defeated Tamil Tiger rebels against the Sri Lankan forces in its decades-long separatist war and later took to clearing the land mines on ...

Vilvaraj Vinothan, 30, who works for the demining agency Mine Advisory Group, excavates the ground in search for unexploded explosive devices in a contaminated mining area in Mankulam, Sri Lanka ...