Land Mines
First identified as a humanitarian concern in Afghanistan and Cambodia in the late 1980s, land mines have become an international issue. Afghanistan, Cambodia, and Angola are the world�...
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Land Mine
A land mine is a hidden explosive device that is buried in the ground. There are basic one-stage mines that explode on contact, and two-stage models that fly into the air before shattering i...
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At a lecture on dangers of land mines, the schoolchildren listened in horror as a guest speaker recounted how his left leg was blown off above the knee. It was three years ago, 11-year-old Massoud ...
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Yim Vanna contemplated suicide after a land mine blew off his leg. But then something came along that gave him hope and a sense of self-worth — volleyball.Today, the 5-foot-2 athlete is the c...
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A transport vehicle hit a land mine in tense northern Mali on Thursday, killing 10 people, a government statement said. Others were injured, but the statement did not say how many.The vehicle was o...
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BAGHDAD, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Up to 25 million land mines, or
almost one for every Iraqi, remain buried in thousands of
minefields across Iraq and are hampering development of rich oil
deposits, off...
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Phnom Penh (dpa) - Football great Sir Bobby Charlton Thursday
urged big business and industry to put their weight behind finding
better systems for detecting and removing la...
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Human Rights Watch said Wednesday the escalating use of land mines by Colombian rebels is killing and mutilating hundreds annually, making this nation the world leader in mine victims."In other arm...
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Jorge Alirio Paredes was on his way to fetch water from a stream with two fellow soldiers here in the misty Andean mountains of southern Colombia when a land mine robbed him of his left leg."It's a...
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Land Mines
Land Mine
Land mine accidents drop in Afghanistan
