Reuters: Decade after Diana campaign, few use landmines
Posted by: James Hathaway
From Reuters:
Decade after Diana campaign, few use landmines
Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:31 AM BST
By Peter Apps
LONDON (Reuters) - Ten years after the death of Princess Diana and the first global treaty against antipersonnel landmines, experts say only a handful of rebel groups and perhaps one state dare use what has become a pariah weapon.
note from Clear Path: The one state is the state of Myanmar (Burma). Clear Path funds clinics to assist landmine survivors on the Thai-Burma border. You can read more here.
Landmine clearance agencies say it will likely take another decade to clear probably the world's two most affected countries -- Angola in southern Africa and Cambodia in Southeast Asia -- both the scene of long-running but now ended civil wars. Ongoing conflicts delay clearance in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
But fewer are now being laid and many activists have moved on to a campaign against cluster munitions in the aftermath of last year's Lebanon war, which left much of the country's south seeded with small unexploded bomblets.
"There is a global stigma attached to landmines now," said Paul Hannon, executive director of pressure group Mines Action Canada.
Read the rest of the article here.
Posted by James Hathaway at July 16, 2007 11:23 AM
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