What you can do is look at the casualty rate per year and see how it went from hundreds in the 90s post-war period, to dozens throughout 2000s, to 0-1 in recent years and calculate your likelihood. Here's that chart for Bosnia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_mines_in_Bosnia_and_Herze...
I lived along former front lines my entire life, I spotted some unexploded ones with my own eyes a long time ago, I'm not dead yet. That said, I am more equipped to handle such situations than you are, as I was taught how to do that since my first days in school. I firmly believe that outsiders are frequently overreacting these days, which is completely understandable, but that doesn't mean it is rational. Your odds of winning a lottery are infinitely higher than dying to a landmine in the few days you spend here. You can increase them by doing something stupid like avoiding those markings, but besides that you'll be fine.
The vast majority of all of those casualties throughout the years is the poorest rural population not being able to afford wood for heating, so they try to get some from the forests in their areas that nobody lays a claim on. You can explain pretty much every uptick by looking at how well the country's economy is doing.
Another common reason for some of the upticks are natural disasters (most frequently floods or landslides) hitting known minefields, which then makes the position more difficult to assess.
There's also a very particular type of mine that doesn't explode on the spot, but shoots ~1m into the air before exploding and sending shrapnel in a large radius which is by far the most deadly (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROM-1). The reason I'm mentioning it is that there was one particular incident with 5 casualties at a scrapyard that year. That same mine is also responsible for the only casualty last year, when a 19-yo goat herder tried to get his goats back on the road.
What you can do is look at the casualty rate per year and see how it went from hundreds in the 90s post-war period, to dozens throughout 2000s, to 0-1 in recent years and calculate your likelihood. Here's that chart for Bosnia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_mines_in_Bosnia_and_Herze...
I lived along former front lines my entire life, I spotted some unexploded ones with my own eyes a long time ago, I'm not dead yet. That said, I am more equipped to handle such situations than you are, as I was taught how to do that since my first days in school. I firmly believe that outsiders are frequently overreacting these days, which is completely understandable, but that doesn't mean it is rational. Your odds of winning a lottery are infinitely higher than dying to a landmine in the few days you spend here. You can increase them by doing something stupid like avoiding those markings, but besides that you'll be fine.
> Here's that chart for Bosnia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_mines_in_Bosnia_and_Herze...
What caused the sudden uptick in 2008?
The vast majority of all of those casualties throughout the years is the poorest rural population not being able to afford wood for heating, so they try to get some from the forests in their areas that nobody lays a claim on. You can explain pretty much every uptick by looking at how well the country's economy is doing.
Another common reason for some of the upticks are natural disasters (most frequently floods or landslides) hitting known minefields, which then makes the position more difficult to assess.
There's also a very particular type of mine that doesn't explode on the spot, but shoots ~1m into the air before exploding and sending shrapnel in a large radius which is by far the most deadly (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROM-1). The reason I'm mentioning it is that there was one particular incident with 5 casualties at a scrapyard that year. That same mine is also responsible for the only casualty last year, when a 19-yo goat herder tried to get his goats back on the road.