by Kamala Sarup
Los Angeles Chronicle
May 5, 2006

The landmine crisis is one of the most urgent and critical crises facing South Asia today. Landmines continue to jeopardise the security of the people in the region because it has paralyzed the countries. And the most disturbing fact is that majority of landmine victims are civilians and women.

For individual and community alike many of whom are already living in poverty and insecurity, the impact of landmines is not simply physical, it is also psychological, social and economic. Every districts in Afaganistan, Pakistan, Shre Lanka, Bangaladesh, India, Kashmir or in Nepal, have had people killed or injured by landmines

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