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

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (30)	1/8/2001 9:25:22 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 76

Perhaps the impact of landmines seems obvious. But the impact of landmines is far greater than the direct medical and rehabilitation costs of the world's landmine victims, which is now calculated at $750 million according to the Report of the United Nations Secretary General. The effect of landmines is far in excess of the direct cost of clearing these from the soil, which will take decades of slow and painstaking work at a minimum cost of $33 billion. Landmines directly or indirectly affect almost every aspect of national life in mine-contaminated countries and the daily lives of those who live in them. The victims of landmines are almost inevitably the poorest and most vulnerable members of society. It is the subsistence farmer, nomads and their herds, and fleeing refugees and the displaced who are most often affected.