Anti-personnel Mines: Controlling the Plague of 'butterflies'Small, often undetectable, lethal for decades and used by the million: anti-personnel mines wreck agriculture and infrastructure and cause hundreds of deaths and injuries each week in Afganistan, Angola, Cambodia, Mozambique and many other affected areas. The victims are often children and other civilians, maimed and killed by weapons laid decades before, for reasons long since forgotten. |
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