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Pastimes : Ban Landmines! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (26)	1/8/2001 9:21:48 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 76

Tragically, the majority of victims of landmines are civilians (from 80% to 90%). At least 15000 Angolans are amputee due to the huge number of landmines strewn across the country (Angola has a population of 10 million - and an estimated 9 million land mines in the ground). Anti-personnel landmines not only kill and maim innocent civilians, they disrupt economies by making large areas of land useless. Clearing a mine costs approximately 500 times what it costs to lay the mine. These mines cause devastating effects in Angola, Cambodia, Iran, Afghanistan, Mozambique, and in more than fifty other countries around the globe. World War II-era landmines still injure 12 people per year in Europe.