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Article: Land mines great killers of the innocent: the United Nations estimates that up to 110 million mines in 64 countries could explode at a misstep.(Editorial)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- February 16, 1996
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Apparently it was not a land mine that killed Sgt. 1st Class Donald Allen Dugan in Bosnia on Saturday.
But it might have been.
Millions of land mines (reports range from 3 million to 6 million) lie in wait where NATO peacekeeping forces will be roaming -- a small fraction of those that stud landscapes around the globe. Wars eventually end, but where there are land mines, there is no peace, for they keep killing and maiming noncombatant victims long after cease-fires or treaties have been signed.
So far since December, nine NATO soldiers have died in Bosnia and 44 have been wounded, many of them by these hidden killers. Dugan apparently picked up a ...