{"id":1412,"date":"2015-04-07T11:20:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T11:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2015-04-07T11:20:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T11:20:58","slug":"clearing-mines-in-nagorno-karabakh-conflict-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=1412","title":{"rendered":"Clearing mines in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>BBC<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin-info.hhd.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Covcas-BBC-HALO-Shahramanyan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1413\" src=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin-info.hhd.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Covcas-BBC-HALO-Shahramanyan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>For more than two decades Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked in conflict over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which lies in Azerbaijan but has a majority population that is ethnic Armenian.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During fighting in the 1990s both sides planted thousands of mines in the small mountainous self-declared republic, posing a serious risk to the public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UK-based charity HALO Trust has been operating in the area since 2000 and has cleared hundreds of mine fields, but many more remain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Programme manager Yuri Shahramanyan spoke to the BBC about the battle faced by his team.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Clearing mines in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict region\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-32200360\" target=\"_blank\">Watch the video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>BBC For more than two decades Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked in conflict over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which lies in Azerbaijan but has <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=1412\" title=\"Clearing mines in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict region\">[more &gt;&gt;&gt;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflicts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}