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Article: DAMAGED LIVES.(some 26,000 deaths and injuries from land mines take place every year)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- October 15, 1999
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Two Years After the Land-Mine Ban, Nations Still Plant Mines, Reports Group
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Consider yourself lucky.
As a young person in the United States, you may have problems, but at least you don't have to worry every day about having an arm or a leg blown off by a land mine. In a number of countries today, losing an arm or a leg or even one's life because of a buried land mine is a real and present danger for kids and adults.
Anti-personnel land mines are buried bombs that are designed to explode when stepped on or touched. Armies set minefields to stop enemy troops from attacking. Yet mines can remain in the ground for many years after ...