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activated Afghanistan agricultural aid agencies aid workers Angola anti-personnel mines anti-tank mines APMs avoid blast booby-traps buried Cambodia casualty caused CHAPTER Christopher Buckley clear mines clearance cleared of mines countries danger of mines de-mining deployed deployment of mines designed destroy detonator devices direct pressure disarmed dissemination effective enemy force eradication explosive chain field fuse or igniter human humanitarian impact of mines indigenous infrastructure initiated injuries International involved Iraq Khmer kill or injure land landmines Landmines in Cambodia Laos livestock manufactured mechanism method metres military mine-awareness mined areas minefields Mines Advisory Group Mozambique Mujahadeen NGOs normally organisations Oxfam particularly personnel mines Phnom Penh presence of mines probing problem protection reason recognise refugees remote remotely delivered mines repatriation resettlement returnees risk route safe ground SCHR is prepared soldiers Somalia Soviet specialist strategy sub-munitions target task teams tripwire Valmara 69 vehicles victims Vincent Coultan/Oxfam vulnerable warning weapons
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Page 78 - NGOs (Handicap International, Human Rights Watch, Medico International, Mines Advisory Group, Physicians for Human Rights and Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation...
Page 71 - does not give military aid in any form to the Cambodian factions'.31 'I confirm', Margaret Thatcher wrote to Neil Kinnock, 'that there is no British Government involvement of any kind in training, equipping or co-operating with Khmer Rouge forces or those allied to them.'32 (My italics.) Parliament and the British people were misled, repeatedly.
Page 78 - The joint call was for: An international ban on the use, production, stockpiling, and sale, transfer or export of antipersonnel mines...
Page 22 - ... of sowing all this [airborne scatterable mines] if you're going to move through it next week or next month?... I know of no situation in the Korean War, nor in the five years I served in Southeast Asia, nor in Panama, nor in Desert Shield-Desert Storm where our use of mine warfare truly channelized the enemy and brought them into a destructive pattern.... In the broader sense, I'm not aware of any operational advantage from broad deployment of mines....
Page 77 - I prohibits the use of any weapons 'the primary effect of which is to injure by fragments which in the human body escape...
Page 76 - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, International Save the Children Alliance, Lutheran World Federation, Oxfam...
Page 23 - ... 7. In his memoir of service in Vietnam, Tobias Wolff writes, "You could never have too many mines. Fifty thousand wouldn't have been too many for me. Given the chance, I'd have lived smack in the middle of a minefield twenty miles wide" (1994, 17). 8. See especially McGrath 1994, 126 and app. 3. "In some areas virtually all mountain grazing land was remotely mined and the whole agricultural infrastructure brought to a halt by the widespread mining
Page 78 - HANDICAP INTERNATIONAL, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, MEDICO INTERNATIONAL, MINES ADVISORY GROUP, PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS and VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION have come together to issue A JOINT CALL TO BAN ANTIPERSONNEL LANDMINES Whereas antipersonnel mines that detonate on contact are indiscriminate weapons that remain hidden and lethal long after the end of a conflict; and Whereas antipersonnel mines have killed or mutilated tens of thousands of civilians and rendered large tracts of agricultural...
Page 72 - There is no British Government involvement of any kind in training, equipping, or co-operating with the Khmer Rouge forces or those allied to them.