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The project is a 19,172 m2 minefield in the village of Kula is in Busovaca municipality, Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the war, this village was between the HVO and ABIH confrontation line. The area is presently abandoned because the threat of mines prevents villagers from returning. Major donors to this effort include:
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The
first project of the Peacekeepers Demining fund honours Lieutenant-General
Gordon Reay who was killed in a tragic accident on December 13th,
2000 while on a humanitarian mission in Croatia. General Reay was
serving as a special advisor to Canada's Ambassador for Mine Action.
He was working to eradicate anti-personnel landmine stockpiles in
Eastern Europe and South Eastern Europe. Gordon Reay grew up in
Montreal and joined the Canadian Military in 1961 as a cadet at
the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. He graduated in
1965. In 1975, after a tour of peacekeeping duty in Cyprus he was
awarded the Member of British Empire (MBE). He became Commander
of the Canadian Land Force in January 1993.