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.
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