Land-mines: A deadly inheritance - Unicef
www.unicef.org/graca/mines.htm
Land-mines represent "an insidious and persistent danger" to children ... Afghanistan, Angola and Cambodia have suffered 85 per cent of the world's land- mine casualties. ... and an amputee population of 70,000, of whom 8,000 are children.
UNICEF
Living in a Minefield: The Landmine Problem in Afghanistan ...
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/.../living-minef...
A ban will prevent the mine horrors of Afghanistan happening elsewhere in future . MSF wishes ... One in three of these victims registered were children under 15. Only 4 per .... If the wound is abdominal, or needs amputation, it will be X-rayed.
Doctors Without Borders
The Horror of Landmines | Afghanistan Year 1380 | POV | PBS
www.pbs.org/pov/afghanistanyear1380/the-horror-of-landmines/
Land mines kill or maim more than 15000 people each year. ... We had to amputateboth legs above the knee. .... In Afghanistan my co-workers and I were told several times that a child had taken the butterfly — or “green parrot,” as the Afghans ...
PBS
Afghanistan Landmine Facts - Afghan Network
www.afghan-network.net/Landmines/
Afghanistan: Landmine Fact Sheet ... Afghanistan has 10 million land mines. ... without exploding, and to thousands of children they resembled butterflys or toys. .... year as a result of mines an UXO, with a far greater number of amputations.Facts About Landmines | CARE
www.care.org/emergencies/facts-about-landmines
Oct 16, 2003 - a: Explosive blast effect AP Land Mines: "Irresistable to Children" ... higher up into the leg, causing secondary infection and higher amputation. ... blast effect AP mine is the "butterfly" mine, commonly found in Afghanistan.Landmines: Fact sheet - New Internationalist
newint.org/easier-english/landmine/lmfacts.html
May 3, 1999 - This means that there is one landmine for every 17 children in the world. ... 87% of the people killed in Cambodia, and 76% in Afghanistan are men. ... On average, people who have an amputation need seven times as much ...
New Internationalist
Hidden enemies: Afghanistan combats landmines | Asia ...
www.dw.com/en/hidden-enemies-afghanistan...landmines/a-16716914
Apr 4, 2013 - There are landmines hidden in nearly all of Afghanistan's provinces. Playing children are especially at risk of detonating the devices, which have ... Doctors said they would have to amputate his legs if there was any chance for ...Children of war: the real casualties of the Afghan conflict
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...
National Center for Biotechnology Information
by ZA Bhutta - 2002 - Cited by 49 - Related articles
Feb 9, 2002 - The women and children of Afghanistan, both among refugees and ... to the many injuries due to landmines and artillery, over 80% of Afghan children .... encouraging children to witness public amputations and executions has ...Giles Duley: 'I lost three limbs in Afghanistan, but had to go ...
www.theguardian.com › Arts › Art & design › Giles Duley
Feb 9, 2013 - A year before, while walking to school, he'd stepped on a landmine, losing ... next two months and left me a triple amputee with only one arm intact. ... Stubbornness – which as a child I was told would be the end of me – was ...
The Guardian
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