Clearing the Killing Fields
Writer/Director
Daphna Rubin
Director of Photography
Dave Goulding
Executive Producers and Creators
Steve Hoggard, Daphna Rubin, Jenny Apostol
Network
National Geographic International / Channel 4 UK
In CLEARING THE KILLING FIELDS, viewers hold their breath with the professional minesweeping teams who, each day, search Sarajevo's battle-scarred cityscape for hidden killers and risk all to rid the land of a deadly menace.
Will they succeed — or will more innocent lives be taken? Mines never rest, they're relentlessly deadly and cannot discriminate between civilian and soldier… And here in Bosnia years after the guns have fallen silent — they still take massive life.
In this story, viewers first meet 13-year-old Damir Vatres who lost part of his arm and one of his eyes to the hidden threat. We then join Bosnian dog handler, Neda Brkovic, and her minesweeping dog, Bonza, at the Canadian Canine Countermine School, as they learn to work together to detect and eliminate the mines that threaten their countrymen.
Throughout the program, we follow a team of demining professionals as they risk life and limb to rid Sarajevo's neighborhoods and parks of their silent foe. Last year alone, 34 deminers died in the effort. And, unfortunately, the job is far from done.
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