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LANDMINES. What is a Landmine?. Landmines are small, usually round devices designed to injure or kill people by an explosive blast or flying fragments. How Does I t Work?.
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What is a Landmine? Landmines are small, usually round devices designed to injure or kill people by an explosive blast or flying fragments.
How Does It Work? It takes a tiny amount of pressure to detonate a landmine, making every man, woman, child, and animal who steps on one to become the next victim. Public Service Announcement The Victims
Landmine Quick Facts • Landmines can cost as little as $3 to make. • It costs about $1000 to safely remove a mine. • The United States stopped making landmines in 1997 but still has a large stockpile of landmines.
More Quick Facts • 1,000 people are involved in landmine accidents every month - one victim every 40 minutes. Around 800 of these will die, the rest will be maimed. • There are 600 different types of mines around the world. • Most mines are made of plastic and contain about the same amount of metal as the spring in a ballpoint pen making metal detectors useless
News From the Past 2 Weeks!!!! • Afghan road bomb kills 12 civiliansMarch 6th, 2011 • Child Killed by Mine is Southern SudanMarch 1st, 2011 • Heavy fire, landmines rock eastern BurmaMarch 2nd, 2011 • Areas effected by landmines:
Also a Problem in Eastern Europe • Bosnia is still effected by landmines, many years after wars have ended. (video)