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Article: Join in the church's campaign to rid the world of land mines.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- October 3, 1997
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As many of 120 million land mines placed in more than 80 countries around the globe kill or maim someone every 20 minutes. That's 26,000 victims a year.
Too often the casualties are non-combatants and likely the poorest of the poor. The daily horror of death and mangled limbs has not claimed the public attention it deserves.
The death of Princess Diana, who had taken up banning land mines as a personal cause, brought the spotlight back on the issue. Internationally, the distressing statistics have caught the notice of enough people that 89 countries last month approved a draft treaty banning antipersonnel land mines.
That the United States ...