WBZ's Jordan Rich says the memory and impact of Princess Diana is still being felt around the world.
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Episode Transcript
Welcome to the Upside with Jordan a dose of good news,
because it's a big world out there. The memory and
impact of Princess Diana is still being felt, particularly the
causes she fought for, one of which the removal of
dangerous land mines throughout the world. Princess Diana would be
very proud of this story. In Sri Lanka, there's a
local organization that has now safely removed it's three hundred
thousandth land mine terrifying in destructive machines left over from
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the island's civil war. The bombs were cleared across an
area thirty three percent larger than the island of Manhattan.
The civil war in Sri Lanka lasted for more than
three decades When it ended in two thousand and nine,
The Halo Trust, a British nonprofit that works to clear
land mines, began the dangerous work of removing the unexploded ordinance.
This past summer, they announced they reached their milestone of
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three hundred thousand mines removed, and thanks to their efforts,
over two hundred and eighty thousand former internally displaced people
now have returned safely to their homes and that's the
upside with Jordan wz Boston's news radio
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