"The scale of the problem the government faced in demining can be clearly seen from the number of mines and other devices unearthed and neutralized during the de-mining process," Rajapaksa said.
De-mining is a high risk, time consuming and costly operation which involves skilled manpower and sophisticated equipment.
Most conventional armies have maps and patterns on record which can fast track de-mining but the process gets tedious when mines are indiscriminately laid with no records.
The military says the Tamil Tigers better known as the LTTE were locally manufacturing mines and other improvised devices in small factories deep in the jungles in the former war zone beyond conventional stan