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	Encyclopedia: Landmine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Removal of landmines is dangerous, slow and costly; however, some countries maintain that landmines are necessary to protect their soldiers in times of war.
		In Europe in the early 18th century, improvised landmines or booby traps were constructed in the form of bombs buried in shallow wells in the earth and covered with scrap metal and/or gravel to serve as shrapnel.
		Small landmines such as the Chinese Type 72 or the U.S. M-14 will result in a "traumatically amputated" foot up to the ankle, while large Russian PMN Blast mines with 200 g of TNT are so powerful that activating them will likely result in the injury of both of the subject's legs.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Landmine (5733 words)

	Landmine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Landmines generally refer to devices specifically manufactured for purpose, as distinguished from improvised explosive devices.
		Landmines (sometimes called area denial munitions) are used to secure disputed borders and to restrict enemy movement in times of war.
		Anti-personnel landmines or APLs are widely considered to be ethically problematic weapons because their victims are commonly civilians, who are often killed or maimed long after a war has ended.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Landmine (3071 words)

	950127 1994 Report to the U.S. Congress on the Problem with Uncleared Landmines and the United States Strategy for ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Landmine incidents are routine in the civilian and refugee populations.
		Landmines were used extensively by both the Soviets and the Afghans during a dozen years of war, and an estimated 10 million mines still seriously hinder refugee repatriation and economic reconstruction.
		Landmines were used extensively in Cambodia during the Vietnam War in the early 1970's, border fighting between Cambodia and Vietnam in the mid 1970's, and the civil war, which began in the late 1970's.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/arms/arms_briefing/950127arms_briefing1.html (21495 words)

	Landmine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Landmines are used to secure disputed borders and to restrict enemy movement in times of war.
		Anti-personnel landmines or APLs are widely considered to be ethically problematic weapons because their victims are commonly civilians, who are often maimed long after war activities have ceased.
		Poison gas landmines were manufactured at least until the 1980s in the Soviet Union and the United States was also known to have at least experimented with the concept in the 1950s.
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/la/Landmine.htm (1424 words)

	Afghanistan Landmine Facts
		Landmines reportedly continue to be laid today in fighting between the Taliban, which controls all but parts of central and northeast Afghanistan, and a loose coalition of opposition forces.
		Most of the landmines in Afghanistan were emplaced during the Soviet occupation and the subsequent communist regime between 1980 and 1992.
		Of the 1,218 casualties, the type of device causing the incident was identified for 1,110: landmines 472 casualties, UXO 476 casualties; antivehicle mines 35 casualties; booby-traps 14 casualties; fuses 50 casualties; and cluster munitions 63 casualties.
	www.afghan-network.net /Landmines (12108 words)

	Hidden Killers 2001 -- The World's Landmine Problem
		The solution to the world’s landmine problem is to make mine-affected countries mine-safe through the execution of mine action programs that lead to raising awareness of the landmine danger, the removal of landmines themselves, and the provision of holistic assistance to landmine victims and their families.
		The landmine problem no longer is defined by the sheer number of landmines, but rather by the number of casualties inflicted, the amount of land rendered unusable or inaccessible, and the degree of economic infrastructure destroyed.
		While the landmine community acknowledges a reduction in the number of landmines and casualties, it remains ever mindful that landmines are still killing and injuring thousands of unsuspecting people, and that a great deal of effort lies ahead if this terrible humanitarian tragedy is to be overcome.
	www.state.gov /t/pm/rls/rpt/hk/2001/6961.htm (5835 words)

	MAJOR FINDINGS, Landmine Monitor 2002
		Landmine Monitor is an unprecedented initiative by the ICBL to monitor implementation of and compliance with the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, and more generally to assess the efforts of the international community to resolve the landmines problem.
		Landmine Monitor identified at least 7,987 new casualties to landmines and UXO in 2001, as compared to 8,064 in 2000.
		Landmine Monitor estimates that there are some 230 million antipersonnel mines in the arsenals of 94 countries, with the biggest estimated to be China (110 million), Russia (60-70 million), United States (11.2 million), Ukraine (6.4 million), Pakistan (6 million), India (4-5 million), and Belarus (4.5 million).
	www.icbl.org /lm/2002/findings.html (1720 words)

	CNN.com - McCartney launches landmine campaign - June 4, 2001
		An estimated 60 million landmines may still be hidden in the ground in 70 countries.
		Princess Diana made the abolition of landmines one of the causes she backed before being killed in a Paris car crash in 1997.
		During the launch, in London, a 25-minute documentary film made by Mills in April, when she travelled to Croatia to hear harrowing stories of living in a land where more than one million mines are buried, was screened for the first time.
	www.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/04/mccartney.mines/index.html (491 words)

	Backgrounder: Landmines in Afghanistan (Human Rights Watch October 2001)
		Landmines pose an ever-present danger to civilians now attempting to flee the country or areas of potential conflict.
		Even if no significant new landmines are laid, efforts to demine the country will undoubtedly be deferred for the duration of the armed conflict.
		The Landmine Protocol of the 1980 Convention on Conventional Weapons (to which the United States is a State Party) allows a 10 percent failure rate.
	www.hrw.org /backgrounder/arms/landmines-bck1011.htm (2965 words)

	Amazon.com: Toys & Games: Transformers Energon Ultra Figure: Landmine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		We were impressed with the "rescue" pretend-play possibilities presented by the crane and winch and the ease of transformation from robot to truck.
		While Landmine's transformation from vehicle to robot wasn't too difficult to do after a couple tries, it was changing him back that proved a challenge.
		Landmine is loads of fun just in the basic mode with his "base" trailer.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001ITVZ6/bigbotcomtransfb (1641 words)

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		The former front-line areas in the northern and central regions contain the greatest concentrations of landmines.
		There are no detailed statistics of victims, but according to the UN's mine-action programme, landmines and UXO cause about 150 to 300 casualties per month, a big strain to on the already overburdened hospital system.
		However, its not just landmines and UXO that are endangering the lives of children.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=30543&SelectRegion=Central_Asia&SelectCountry=AFGHANISTAN (1117 words)

	No bright future for landmine survivors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He said that 50 per cent of landmine victims die as a consequence of blood loss and the fact that in most cases they are out alone farming plots of land, or some other activity in remote areas where medical assistance is not immediately available.
		He speaks of his experience with landmines in a tone of a person who has lost hope and shrugs his shoulders in a resigned manner.
		This landmine robbed Ibrahim of his left hand, four of his right fingers, his left eye and part of his vision in his right eye.
	www.jordanembassyus.org /072198006.htm (681 words)

	Landmine - Function: Asteroid Miner
		The trouble is, Landmine sometimes sees his job as a bit on the boring and unglamorous side.
		Landmine loves adventure stories, be they literary, celluloid, or video, and wants very much to live out his fantasies.
		Abilities: Because of the hostile environments Landmine often has to work in, exposed to cosmic gales, meteorite rain and the like, his shell is constructed of a high-density Cybertronic alloy, resistant to all but the most severe conditions.
	members.fortunecity.com /samhain13/trans/landmine.html (363 words)

	Landmine Explosion Kills Six CARE Workers in Angola. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Six staff members of the international humanitarian agency CARE were killed after a landmine explosion Friday, Dec. 12, in Angola, the organization announced Wednesday.
		Landmine explosions are one of the worst hazards faced by CARE workers in the African country, said CARE Angola country director Doug Steinberg.
		Beyond the 50 to 70 million unexploded landmines still scattered around the planet, one billion or more pieces of unexploded ordnance (UXO), ranging from bullets to 2,000-pound bombs, also pose a deadly threat, said Macpherson.
	www.careusa.org /newsroom/pressreleases/2003/dec/12172003_Angola_deaths.asp (464 words)

	Mines Advisory Group - landmines, campaign, land mine clearance organisations, mag
		Based in and around the community affected by landmines and unexploded ordnance, our Mine Action seeks to reduce the risk of injury and to help re-develop that community and its economic potential.
		Following the withdrawal of soviet forces, landmines and unexploded ordnance were seriously affecting the aid and relief effort in the country; returning refugees were caught up in the legacy of years of war.
		Stuart Hughes, BBC journalist and landmine survivor, is helping to clear the 'real death valleys' by riding across one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet.
	www.mag.org.uk (732 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - Non-lethal landmine zaps intruders with 50,000 volts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Plans to roll out a non-lethal landmine that zaps intruders with 50,000 volts were discussed by security experts who met up in California last month.
		But while the device satisfies the 1997 Ottawa Convention, which bans explosive landmines, some experts question its safety and are concerned that it could breach international humanitarian laws.
		According to Toplansky, security experts at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico who are responsible for handling the security at all US nuclear facilities, met with Tasertron in March at Kirkland Air Force Base, in California, to discuss using the technology in perimeter defences as part of an overall strategy to improve security.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn3650 (726 words)

	Assisting landmine survivors and their communities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In addition there are tens of thousands of family members of these landmine survivors and their communities affected by the terror of these weapons.
		While complying with the Convention's obligation to assist landmine survivors continues to be a daunting task, important developments have taken place in 2000.
		Canada became committee Co-Chair in September 2001, and is committed to continuing to deepen the role of landmine survivors and to identifying practical means for States Parties to meet their commitments to them.
	www.mines.gc.ca /IV/IV_D-en.asp (316 words)

	Superman raises landmine awareness
		"Landmines have inflicted death and enormous pain and suffering on hundreds of thousands of children over the last several decades," says UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy.
		In 68 countries, where an estimated 110 million landmines are lodged in the ground, often long after hostilities have ended, children pick up or step on the devices every day while herding animals, working in the fields or just playing.
		"A landmine is a perfect soldier," the UNICEF State of the World's Children 1996 report quotes a Khmer Rouge general as saying.
	www.unicef.org /newsline/super.htm (485 words)

	Landmines in Nepal, The Unseen Danger
		Landmines are explosive devices that are designed to explode when triggered by pressure or a tripwire.
		Landmines are used by both the maoists and the army.
		Ban Landmines Campaign, Nepal (NCBL), a Nepalese non-governmental organisation, estimates that more than 200 people are killed in Nepal every year due to landmine and Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) explosions with almost 1,100 people killed since 1998.
	www.landminesnepal.org (507 words)

	Landmine Action Week Australia May 23-29 2005
		Encourage the Australian Government to contribute $150 million over the next ten years (2005-2015), for the rehabilitation of landmine victims and the removal of and education about landmines in our region.
		Acknowledge and promote Australia's commitment to eliminate landmines, clear minefields for community development, and assist landmine victims.
		Raise funds from the Australian community to continue to assist people affected by landmines in developing countries.
	www.landmine-action-week.org (161 words)

	Landmine Monitor (LM): Landmine Monitor
		Landmine Monitor, a project of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), re-launched it...
		In June 1998, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) established Landmine Monitor to monitor and report on implementation of and compliance with the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, and more generally, to assess the international community's response to the humanitarian crisis caused by landmines.
		Landmine Monitor is coordinated by an Editorial Board of four non-governmental organizations and by a team of Thematic Research Coordinators.
	www.icbl.org /lm (294 words)

	Landmine Action (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For ideas about addressing the landmine issue in schools, click here
		Landmine Action is an internationally recognised leader in the field of conventional weapons policy and a key innovator building sustainable partnerships in current and former conflict zones.
		Our activities encompass landmines, explosive remnants of war, small arms and ammunition as well as future and alternative weapons.
	www.landmineaction.org (215 words)

	LSN - Landmine Survivors Network - Chronology
		Queen Noor joins Landmine Survivors Network and key Members of Congress in raising awareness of global scourge of landmines and appeal for the United States to revisit landmine policy, destroy landmine stockpiles, sign Landmine Ban Treaty and increase US funding for demining and victim assistance programs in 2000.
		LSN hosts Landmine Awareness Reception with Queen Noor of Jordan at home of LSN Board Member Vincent Ryan, and participates in UNICEF-arranged procession through Boston Common and Gala Dinner to raise funds for Mozambican victim assistance projects.
		LSN introduces legal memorandum, State Responsibility for Landmine Survivor Assistance, and is re-elected as Chair of Working Group for Victim Assistance, International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
	www.landminesurvivors.org /inside_chronology.php?year=1999 (738 words)

	The Alliance Enterprise Corporation - Innovative Landmine Detection, Mapping and Clearing systems
		The most difficult task in landmine clearing today is primarily to detect and pinpoint the location of the landmine.
		The LML Aircraft is an ideal platform to carry the landmine sensors because of its unusual flight capabilities.
		The LML (Landmine Locator) is the only safe, economical and timely solution to locate and eradicate landmines around the world.
	www.taecorp.com (339 words)

	Landmine Design - Graphic Design & Web Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Landmine Design is a full service design firm providing graphic design, web development and marketing consultancy.
		Landmine Design has been serving clients from a wide variety of industries in the U.S. and world since 1999.
		We offer layout, printing and design for a full range of projects, including CD artwork, banners, posters, announcements, business cards, letterhead, catalogs, flyers, invitations, logos, newsletters, product packaging, press kits, programs, signs and more.
	www.landmine-design.com (120 words)

	U.S.: Bush Administration Abandons Landmine Ban (Human Rights Watch, 27-2-2004)
		This new landmine policy is not just a gigantic step backward for the United States, it is a complete about-face.
		While the rest of the world is rushing to embrace an immediate and comprehensive ban on antipersonnel mines, the Bush administration has decided to cling to the weapon in perpetuity.
		Human Rights Watch said the most important, and objectionable, aspect of the new policy is the decision not to give up “smart" mines that have self-destruct mechanisms designed to blow the mines up after a period of time.
	hrw.org /english/docs/2004/02/27/usint7684.htm (779 words)

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