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Article: The killing fields.(Editorials)(Afghanistan needs help dealing with land mines)(Editorial)
- Article from:
- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- January 8, 2002
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Byline: The Register-Guard
The single most daunting barrier to the return of normal life in Afghanistan is not the Taliban, corrupt warlords or ttribal power struggles. It's land mines.
The recent destruction of a bus carrying 17 refugees served as a painful reminder that, though the wars that have plagued Afghanistan for more than two decades may be ending, their legacy lives on in the tens of thousands of land mines scattered across the fields, roads and mountain passes of that tormented country.
It's a rare day that passes in Afghanistan without land-mine casualties. Recently, two youngsters were killed near the city of Herat when a land ...