AMARAS, Armenia // In a picturesque mulberry orchard, two men pick up a white plastic frame and slowly walk forward through the long grass.
As they edge ahead, a colleague behind plants red stakes in the ground to mark the area the pair has covered.
Then, as they move a few more feet, a shrill alarm sounds: something underground needs investigating.
It could be an anti-tank mine of the kind that have killed a string of residents and white stakes are planted in the soil to indicate where further tests are needed.
This is all in a day’s work for the Halo Trust, a British charity that has been helping to clear Nagorno-Karabakh of mines and unexploded ordnance for nearly a decade.
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