UN anti-mine programme faces cuts

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Source: al jazeera

Global anti-mine programmes face a budget shortfall of $565m in 2010, meaning humanitarian mine clearance will move at a much slower pace than last year.

UN officials at an international review conference on the Mine Ban Treaty in Colombia on Friday said projects planned in 27 countries to clear mined areas were in jeopardy.

UN projects currently work on destroying mine stockpiles, providing assistance to mine survivors and running mine-risk education programmes in local communities. It will cost nearly $600m next year.
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Afghanistan, home to the world's highest rate of annual landmine casualties, receives the largest share of international mine action aid, over $100m last year, followed by Sudan.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/12/2009124135926438616.html

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sure.
it would be easier to stop sellers at source. the work would be easily done. UN knows who produces and sells.

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1. another photo from the article

no to landmines

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2. The buggers

who set them up, planted them should pick them up.

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3. Land mines are extremely easy to make, even in the field.

Take hand grenade, stick in tin can of correct size, tie trip wire to grenade so that person hitting trip wire pulls grenade from tin can. Pull pin from grenade. Grenade is now a land mine.

Take cartridge for gun. Put in short metal tube of right size. Bury in dirt with bullet pointed up, primer cap resting above sharp rock.

Dig hole. Put in sharpened stake. Put cover over hole. Punji stick isn't technically a land mine in that it doesn't explode, but is is also a danger to anybody who steps on that hole.

Improvised explosive devices are readily made in the field. Just ask the Iraqis or the Taliban.