Landmines still blight Croatia over 20 years since the end of the Homeland War

SUMMARY: Croatia is still paying the price of the Homeland War. The Ministry of the Interior have announced that over the past twenty years, 5.5 billion Kuna has been spent on clearing landmines throughout the country. Since the end of the war 595 people have been injured due to mines. In fact, 2017 was the first year since the end of the war in 1995 that nobody was injured by landmines.