landmines
International Day for Mine Awareness has been celebrated at Baku’s Olympic stadium with a charity amputee football match. The majority of players sustained their injuries from landmines. "Today we went on to the field to say 'no' to the mines, to warn people not to enter prohibited areas for their safety, and to highlight that the mines should be cleaned," said amputee football player Senan Haciyev. "I call on everyone to stay safe." While Africa is the continent most severely affected by landmines, Europe is hugely impacted too. It's estimated that one-third of territory in Azerbaijan, Bosnia...
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Last year, Ukraine became the most land-mined country on Earth. It is an inauspicious harbinger for this year’s 25th anniversary of the Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty entering international law. By some estimates, one-third of Ukraine is now contaminated. Even more will be before this conflict is over. The frontiers of this treaty are clearly being stretched. Until this war, no signatory country, like Ukraine, had been invaded. Neither had a non-signatory, as is Russia, entered a land war of conquest. Both have been laying mines since the invasion. But this does not mean the treaty has failed. Over th...
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