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Comercia company Ronco training center near Mostar .
Commercial as well as humanitarian, non-governmental organisations fight to get access to these funds. NGO's say commercial companies' pressures for greater productivity geopardise deminers' safety. "Deminers are forced to achieve the norms since these companies are paid according to how many square meters they clear," suggests Per-Olof Aström from NFS, but he admits his company doesn't have any financial problems because it is directly sponsored by the Norwegian government. But the commercial firms strike back. "Humanitarians have spent three times more money, cleared three times less of the territory, and had three times more victims among deminers," Primorac from the American owned Ronco company replies to NGOs' accusations. |
