Kinmen Island, Taiwan, has been transformed to the island of Peace by mine clearing.

Kinmen Island has been transformed into the Island of Peace.
Historically, its location was one of retaliation base as the border of Taiwan and China(Fujian Province, South of China). Taiwan Department of Defense officially announced Kinmen Island as the Island of Peace since 1997 they have removed mine there via the Chinese Newpaper, Information Times.

Taiwan Department of Defense asked the Britain speciality company to remove mine primarily from 1997 to 2006, and the Department of Defense made a mine clearing task force under the army keep doing it from 2007.
There are total 204 minefields and 81,822 got removed in Kinmen Island. The Department of Defense announced about 126,000 mines got eliminated in both areas, Kinmen Island and Mazudao Island.These areas were the military base between China and Taiwan from 1950 to 1970s. Particularly, China bombared Kinmen Island intensively with 470,000 shots for 44 days in 1958. And it countinued till 1978, for 20 years.

Kinmen Island has been transformed into the most famous tourist spot since Taiwan lifted martial law in 1992 and improved relations between both banks.
Taiwan Department of Defense announced they are anticipating that they would finish their work as mine clearing 3 years earlier than the time they are supposed to make it clear agreeing with ICBL(International Campaign to Ban Landmines).

Yonhapnews Correspondent, Sung-Mu Ryu.

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+Good transformation here it is. There are a lot have happened in history, but we've got to go further with forgiveness which can be called 'LOVE'!