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Georgia Diary
August 15, 2003
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We meet lots of animals during the working day on the minefield - frogs, snakes, lizards and turtles. We see them lying on the stones, jumping in the grass or sleeping in the branches of trees. Probably because of the hot sun, those which are supposed to scare people and those which are supposed to be afraid of people are too lazy to remember all that. So we successfully share the territory.
Some of our deminers remember that during the war when there were problems with food and cigarettes they ate snakes and smoked something rolled up from tobacco and sheets of newspaper. And now they don't understand how they could do that. It is really hard for starving humans and addicted smokers.
Today one small turtle nearly got into our Crusher but one of our deminers saved it. It was one more humanitarian task for a humanitarian organisation. We were all happy like children. Of course we understand that there are many countries in the world where people eat snakes, frogs and turtles as delicious food but here in the Caucasus people prefer classic meat like chicken and beef, which may be out of fashion in Europe.
Peter Shoua
Field Officer Crusher Team
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