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Article: Fields of death: only days before her death, Princess Diana pleaded for an end to the use of land mines.(includes related information)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- September 26, 1997
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OSLO, Norway--Only ten days before her life was tragically taken in an auto accident, Princess Diana toured the war-torn nation of Bosnia.
The princess was not on a pleasure trip, but on a mission to draw world attention to the human tragedy caused by exploding land mines. On more than one occasion, Diana wept openly after meeting children who had lost arms, legs, or eyesight to land-mine explosions.
On September 1, a little more than a day after Diana died, delegates from 100 nations convened in Oslo, Norway, for a conference on land mines. As the meeting opened, the delegates stood for a moment of silence, honoring Diana for her determination to ...